Ghana - Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998, Round 3

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0

Year

1998

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Financial Assistance
United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Financial Assistance

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

Study website

Created on

Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 12, 2016

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Reason stopped breastfeeding (m21)
File: ALLCHILD

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-97
Invalid: 99

Valid cases: 1939
Invalid: 11249
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 97

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Mother ill, weak	59	3.0%
2	Child ill, weak	15	0.8%
3	Child died	156	8.0%
4	Nipple, breast prob.	27	1.4%
5	Insufficient milk	42	2.2%
6	Working	51	2.6%
7	Child refused	242	12.5%
8	Weaning age	1118	57.7%
9	Became pregnant	201	10.4%
10	Started using method	0	0.0%
96	Other	14	0.7%
97	Missing ever breastf	14	0.7%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.