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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Main reason not to use a meth. (v376)
File: REC32

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 11-98
Invalid: 99

Valid cases: 2147
Invalid: 2696
Minimum: 11
Maximum: 98

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Not married	240	11.2%
20	FERTILITY-RELATED	0	0.0%
21		0	0.0%
22	Infrequent sex	70	3.3%
23	Menopausal, hyster.	182	8.5%
24	Subfecund, infecund	128	6.0%
25		0	0.0%
26	Wants more children	342	15.9%
30	OPPOSITION TO USE	0	0.0%
31	Respondent opposed	285	13.3%
32	Husband opposed	33	1.5%
33	Others opposed	6	0.3%
34	Religious prohibit.	131	6.1%
40	LACK OF KNOWLEDGE	0	0.0%
41	Knows no method	123	5.7%
42	Knows no source	50	2.3%
50	METHOD-RELATED	0	0.0%
51	Health concerns	68	3.2%
52	Fear side effects	272	12.7%
53	Lack of access	1	0.0%
54	Cost too much	16	0.7%
55	Inconvenient to use	24	1.1%
56	Interfere with body	29	1.4%
96	Other	20	0.9%
98	DK	127	5.9%

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.