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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
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Sep 19, 2018
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Has health insurance from other source (B_INSOTHER)

Data file: GHA2014-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1201
End: 1201
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1010) What type of health insurance are you (covered/registered) by?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

NATIONAL/DISTRICT HEALTH INSURANCE (NHIS) A
HEALTH INSURANCE THROUGH EMPLOYER B
MUTUAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION/COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INSURANCE C
OTHER PRIVATELY PURCHASED COMMERCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE D
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
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
INSOTHER (V481X) indicates whether the woman is covered by health insurance from some other source. The meaning of "other" depends on the specific categories included in a given sample.

concept

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