Maternal Health Survey 2017

Ghana, 2017

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Reference ID

GHA_2017_MHS_v01_M

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Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), Ghana Health Service (GHS)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Sep 11, 2018

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Main reason for abortion (q502a)

Data file: QWSEC05 - Core

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 14

End: 15

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 96

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Health of mother
2	Risk of birth defect
3	Fetus not viable
4	No money to take care of baby
5	Too young to have child
6	Not ready to be a mother
7	No one to help me look after the child
8	Wanted to delay childbearing
9	Wanted to space child
10	Wanted to continue schooling
11	Wanted to continue working
12	Wanted no more children
13	Did not love the father
14	Did not want to stay with the father
15	Partner did not want child/denied the pregnancy
16	Father of child died
17	Child's sex
18	Because of rape
19	To avoid shame
20	Afraid of parents
21	Parents insisted
96	Other

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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