Ghana - Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998, Round 3

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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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Main reason not using a method (v375a)
File: REC32
Overview
Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 11-98
Invalid: 99
Valid cases: 4026
Invalid: 817
Minimum: 21
Maximum: 98
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
11 Not married 0 0.0%
20 FERTILITY-RELATED 0 0.0%
21 Not having sex 866 21.5%
22 Infrequent sex 232 5.8%
23 Menopausal, hyster. 144 3.6%
24 Subfecund, infecund 161 4.0%
25 Postpartum, breastf. 132 3.3%
26 Wants more children 660 16.4%
27 Pregnant 179 4.4%
30 OPPOSITION TO USE 0 0.0%
31 Respondent opposed 293 7.3%
32 Husband opposed 67 1.7%
33 Others opposed 10 0.2%
34 Religious prohibit. 130 3.2%
40 LACK OF KNOWLEDGE 0 0.0%
41 Knows no method 251 6.2%
42 Knows no source 127 3.2%
50 METHOD-RELATED 0 0.0%
51 Health concerns 117 2.9%
52 Fear side effects 345 8.6%
53 Lack of access 7 0.2%
54 Cost too much 54 1.3%
55 Inconvenient to use 36 0.9%
56 Interfere with body 57 1.4%
96 Other 44 1.1%
98 DK 114 2.8%
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.

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