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

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Data Description

Data File: CHILD5

Cases	3298
Variable(s)	324
Producer	Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Missing Data	Prior to 2008, missing data and not applicable data were left as blank. These values are not differentiated. The current policy is to identify the missing data as follows: -a coded value would be composed of 9s such that the entire length of the field is filled. For example a code of' '999' would be used for a missing field of three characters. -not applicable or skipped variables are left blank
Processing Checks	All files have been checked for the following: 1. All variables have been clearly defined and labelled 2. All categories (value labels) have been clearly defined 3. All cases have unique identification (no duplicates) 4. The frequencies of expected respondents checked with the actual section and inconsistencies noted. 5. Skip patterns have been verified 6. Structure edits have been performed

Variables

Name	Label	Question
b3	Date of birth (CMC)

b4	Sex of child

b5	Child is alive

b6	Age at death

b7	Age at death (months-imputed)

b8	Current age of child

b9	Who child lives with

b10	Completeness of information

b11	Preceding birth interval

b12	Succeeding birth interval

b13	Flag for age at death

b14	Birth interval >= 4 years

b15	Live birth between births

hidx	Index to birth history

h1	Has health card

h2	Received BCG

h2d	BCG day

h2m	BCG month

h2y	BCG year

h3	Received DPT 1

h3d	DPT 1 day

h3m	DPT 1 month

h3y	DPT 1 year

h4	Received POLIO 1

h4d	POLIO 1 day

h4m	POLIO 1 month

h4y	POLIO 1 year

h5	Received DPT 2

h5d	DPT 2 day

h5m	DPT 2 month

h5y	DPT 2 year

h6	Received POLIO 2

h6d	POLIO 2 day

h6m	POLIO 2 month

h6y	POLIO 2 year

h7	Received DPT 3

h7d	DPT 3 day

h7m	DPT 3 month

h7y	DPT 3 year

h8	Received POLIO 3

h8d	POLIO 3 day

h8m	POLIO 3 month

h8y	POLIO 3 year

h9	Received MEASLES

h9d	MEASLES day

h9m	MEASLES month

h9y	MEASLES year

h0	Polio 0

h0d	Polio 0 day

h0m	POLIO 0 month

h0y	POLIO 0 year

h10	Ever had vaccination

h11	Had diarrhea recently

h11b	Blood in the stools

h11c	Bowel movements in worst day

h12a	Diarrhea: government hosp.

h12b	Diarrhea: govt health center

h12c	Diarrhea: govt health post

h12d	Diarrhea: mobile clinic

h12e	Diarrhea: comm.health worker

h12f	Diarrhea: CS public sector -NA

h12g	Diarrhea: CS public sector -NA

h12h	Diarrhea: CS public sector -NA

h12i	Diarrhea: other public sector

h12j	Diarrhea: private hosp/clin.

h12k	Diarrhea: private pharmacy

h12l	Diarrhea: private doctor

h12m	Diarrhea: private mobile cln

h12n	Diarrhea: comm.health worker

h12o	Diarrhea: CS med.priv secto-NA

h12p	Diarrhea: CS med.priv secto-NA

h12q	Diarrhea: CS med.priv secto-NA

h12r	Diarrhea: other med.priv sect.

h12s	Diarrhea: shop

h12t	Diarrhea: traditional pract.

h12u	Diarrhea: Drug peddler

h12v	Diarrhea: CS oth.priv secto-NA

h12w	Diarrhea: CS oth.priv secto-NA

h12x	Diarrhea: Other

h12y	Diarrhea: no treatment

h12z	Diarrhea: medical treatment

h13	Given oral rehydration

h14	Given recommend. home solution

h15	Given other pills or syrups

h15a	Given antibiotics (CS) -NA

h15b	Given an injection

h15c	Given an intravenous (IV)

h15d	Given home remedy, herbal med.

h15e	Given sugar-salt-water solution

h15f	Given CS other treatment -NA

h15g	Given CS other treatment -NA

h15h	Given CS other treatment -NA

h16	Increase or decrease fluids

h18	Increase or decrease in foods

h20	Given other treatment

h21a	Given no treatment

h21	Received any treatment

h22	Had fever in last two weeks

h31	Had cough in last two weeks

h31b	Short, rapid breaths