Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008

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Reference ID

GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

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Pays for drugs and services out of pocket (B_HCPAY)

Data file: GHA2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1387

End: 1387

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1015I. Do you have to pay out of pocket for drugs and services?

YES 1
NO 2
SOMETIMES 3

Categories

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes
2	Sometimes
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

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

HCPAY indicates whether the woman pays for medical drugs and services out of pocket.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Healthcare cost Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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