Demographic and Health Survey 2014

Ghana, 2014

Reference ID

GHA_2014_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), Ghana Health Service (GHS), National Public National Public Health Reference Laboratory (NPHRL)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

Metadata

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Oct 19, 2015

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Reason for not delivering most recent child in health facility (mv251)

Data file: MREC22

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 35

End: 36

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	Costs too much
2	Facility not open
3	Too far/no transportation
4	Don't trust facility/poor quality service
5	No female provider at facility
6	Not the first child
7	Child's mother did not think it was necessary
8	He did not think it was necessary
9	Family did not think necessary
10	Family/husband did not allow
11	Not customary
12	S/He did not know where to go
13	He could not accompany her
14	Inconventient service hour
15	Long waiting time
96	Other
98	Don't know

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.

Others

Notes

Youngest child - Reason for not delivering in health facility. This question is no longer part of the DHS VI core questionnaire, but the variable is kept in the DHS VI recode.

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