Ghana - Ghana Maternal Health Survey 2007

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-GMHS-2007

Year

2007

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service - Autonomous

Sponsor(s)

United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Provided funds for the survey

Metadata

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Jul 24, 2013

Last modified

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Main reason for abortion (Q304)
File: GHIQ50FL

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-96
Invalid: 99

Valid cases: 558
Invalid: 9812
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 96

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health of mother	26	4.7%
2	Risk of birth defect	5	0.9%
3	No money to take care of baby	117	21.0%
4	Too young to have child	7	1.3%
5	Not ready to be a mother	49	8.8%
6	Wanted to continue schooling	56	10.0%
7	Did not love the father	7	1.3%
8	Wanted to delay childrearing	66	11.8%
9	Wanted to continue working	43	7.7%
10	Did not want to stay with the father	44	7.9%
11	Wanted to space child	49	8.8%
12	Partner did not want child/denied the pregnancy	37	6.6%
13	Child's sex	0	0.0%
14	Because of rape	1	0.2%
15	To avoid shame	10	1.8%
16	Afraid of parents	7	1.3%
17	No one to help me look after the child	15	2.7%
18	Parents insisted	4	0.7%
19	Father of child died	1	0.2%
96	Other	14	2.5%
99		6
Sysmiss		9806

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.