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Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2014
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GHA_2014_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Ethnicity, Ghana (M_ETHNICITYMN_GH)

Data file: GHA2014-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 243
End: 244
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
114) To which ethnic group do you belong?

AKAN 01
GA/DANGME 02
EWE 03
GUAN 04
MOLE-DAGBANI 05
GRUSSI 06
GRUMA 07
MANDE 08
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 96
Categories
Value Category
01 Akan
02 Ga/Dangme
03 Ewe
04 Guan
05 Mole-Dagbani
10 Other groups
11 Gruma
12 Grussi
13 Hausa
14 Asante
15 Akwapim
16 Fante
17 Dagarti
18 Twi
19 Mande
20 Other, unspecified
21 Other, Ghanaian
22 Other, Central Togo
23 Other, African
96 Other, unspecified
98 Missing
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.

Description

Definition
ETHNICITYMN_GH (MV131GH) is a variable specific to Ghana that reports responses to a question about the man's ethnicity. The groups identified vary across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and religion Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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