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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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Bridewealth not negotiated: Other reason (C_BWNOOTHER)

Data file: GHA2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 311
End: 311
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
601B) Why was the bridewealth not negotiated?

FAMILY DID NOT AGREE A (GO TO 604)
BRIDEWEALTH NOT NEGOTIABLE B (GO TO 604)
HUSBAND NOT GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO NEGOTIATE C (GO TO 604)
FAMILY TIES D (GO TO 604)
I DID NOT AGREE E (GO TO 604)
NO NEED F (GO TO 604)
PRESTIGE G (GO TO 604)
DETECTED I WAS PREGNANT H (GO TO 604)
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X (GO TO 604)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
BWNOOTHER indicates whether the reason bridewealth was not negotiated in the respondent's current marriage was due to some other reason (unspecified in the data). The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Marriage and cohabitation Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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