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Global School-based Student Health Survey 2007

Ghana, 2007
Reference ID
GHA_2007_GSHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Metadata
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Dec 12, 2013
Last modified
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data processing
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    GHA_2007_GSHS_v01_M
    Title

    Global School-based Student Health Survey 2007
    Country
    Name Country code
    Ghana GHA
    Study type

    World Health Survey [hh/whs]
    Series Information

    The GSHS is a collaborative surveillance project designed to help countries measure and assess the behavioural risk factors and protective factors in 10 key areas among young people aged 13 to 17 years. The GSHS is a relatively low-cost school-based survey which uses a self-administered questionnaire to obtain data on young people's health behaviour and protective factors related to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children and adults worldwide. The GSHS was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with United Nations' UNICEF, UNESCO, and UNAIDS; and with technical assistance from CDC.

    As of December 2011, representatives from more than 107 countries have been trained and 73 countries have completed a GSHS. Twenty-nine countries have been trained but have not conducted their surveys because of insufficient funds, staff turnover, or other in-country barriers. More than 420,000 students have participated in a GSHS survey.
    Abstract

    The 2007 Ghana GSHS was a school-based survey of students in grades JSS1, JSS2, and JSS3.

    The purpose of the GSHS is to provide data on health behaviors and protective factors among students to:

    • Help countries develop priorities, establish programs, and advocate for resources for school health and youth health programs and policies;
    • Allow international agencies, countries, and others to make comparisons across countries regarding the prevalence of health behaviors and protective factors; and
    • Establish trends in the prevalence of health behaviors and protective factors by country for use in evaluation of school health and youth health promotion.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Students aged 13-17 years

    Scope

    Notes

    The 2007 Ghana GSHS measured alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviours that contribute to HIV infections, other STIs, and unintended pregnancies, unintentional injuries and violence, hygiene, dietary behaviours and overweight, physical activity, and protective factors.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    World Health Organization
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Producers
    Name
    United Nations Children's Fund
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    World Health Organization

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The 2007 Ghana GSHS was a school-based survey of students in grades JSS1, JSS2, and JSS3. A two-stage cluster sample design was used to produce data representative of all students in grades JSS1, JSS2, and JSS3 in Ghana. At the first stage, schools were selected with probability proportional to enrollment size. At the second stage, classes were randomly selected and all students in selected classes were eligible to participate.

    A total of 6,236 students participated in the Ghana GSHS.
    A total of 1,843 students participated in the Ghana Central GSHS.
    A total of 2,548 students participated in the Ghana North GSHS.
    A total of 1,845 students participated in the Ghana South GSHS.
    Response Rate

    National: The school response rate was 97%, the student response rate was 86%, and the overall response rate was 83%.
    Central: The school response rate was 100%, the student response rate was 86%, and the overall response rate was 86%.
    North: The school response rate was 92%, the student response rate was 82%, and the overall response rate was 75%.
    South:The school response rate was 100%, the student response rate was 92%, and the overall response rate was 92%.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The GSHS uses a standardized scientific sample selection process; common school-based methodology; and core questionnaire modules, core-expanded questions, and country-specific questions that are combined to form a self-administered questionnaire that can be administered during one regular class period.

    The 10 core questionnaire modules address the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children and adults worldwide.

    • Alcohol use
    • Dietary behaviors
    • Drug use
    • Hygiene
    • Mental health
    • Physical activity
    • Protective factors
    • Sexual behaviors that contribute to HIV infection, other sexually-transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy
    • Tobacco use
    • Violence and unintentional injury

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start
    2007
    Data Collectors
    Name
    World Health Organization
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    Students self-reported their responses to each question on a computer scannable answer sheet.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion World Health Organization http://www.who.int/chp/gshs/en/ chronicdiseases@who.int
    Access conditions

    GSHS data release and publication policies and procedures are based on the following guiding principles:

    • GSHS data are owned by the official country-level agency (ex. Ministry of Health) conducting or sponsoring the survey.
    • Public health and scientific advancement are best served by an open and timely exchange of data and data analyses.
    • The privacy of participating schools and students must be protected.
    • Data quality must be maintained.
    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Example:

    World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ghana Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) 2007, Ref. GHA_2007_GSHS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion World Health Organization chronicdiseases@who.int http://www.who.int/chp/gshs/en/
    The World Bank Microdata Library The World Bank microdata@worldbank.org http://microdata.worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_GHA_2007_GSHS_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2013-09-19

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (September 2013)
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