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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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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
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Reason not in NHIS: Not heard of NHIS (C_NONHISUNFAM)

Data file: GHA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1377
End: 1377
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1015B. Why have you not registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card? RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

NOT HEARD OF NHIS A (GO TO 1015I)
CANNOT AFFORD PREMIUM B (GO TO 1015I)
DO NOT TRUST C (GO TO 1015I)
DON'T NEED HEALTH INSURANCE D (GO TO 1015I)
NHIS DOES NOT COVER HEALTH SERVICES I NEED E (GO TO 1015I)
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ X (GO TO 1015I)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
NONHISUNFAM indicates whether the woman has not registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) of Ghana because she has not heard of NHIS.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Insurance, CS Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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