Ghana - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2006, MICS Round 1

Reference ID

DDI-GHA-GSS-MICS-2006-v1.0

Year

2006

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - Financial and technical assistance
(US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - PEPFAR - Financial and technical assistance
Dutch Government - - Financial and technical assistance

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Who circumcised you? (FG7)
File: Women

Overview

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

Valid cases: 466
Invalid: 9319
Minimum: 11
Maximum: 99

Questions and instructions

Literal question

FG7. Who circumcised you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Traditional circumciser	397	85.2%
12	Trained Traditional birth attendant	6	1.3%
13	Untrained Traditional birth attedant	12	2.6%
16	Other traditional person	3	0.6%
21	Doctor	0	0.0%
22	Nurse/midwife	1	0.2%
26	Other health profesional	0	0.0%
98	DK	31	6.7%
99	Missing	16	3.4%

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.