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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
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Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Won't renew NHIS: Use services not covered (W_NHISRENCOV)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2968
End: 2968
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1015H. Why do you not want to renew the NHIS card? Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

HAVE NOT BEEN SICK A
PREMIUM EXPENSIVE B
STILL PAY OUT OF POCKET C
WORSE QUALITY CARE WITH CARD D
WAITING TIME FOR CARD LONG E
USED SERVICES NOT COVERED F
DID NOT USE ANY HEALTH SERVICES G
USE CLINICS OR TRADITIONAL PRACTITIONERS WHO ARE NOT COVERED H
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
NHISRENCOV indicates whether the woman won't or didn't renew her registration in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) of Ghana because she uses services that are not covered.

concept

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