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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
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Adult diagnosed with high blood pressure 2+ times (W_HIGHBPDIAG2)

Data file: GHA2014-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2794
End: 2794
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1034) Were you told on two or more different occasions by a doctor or other health professional that you had hypertension or blood pressure?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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
For women who have been told by a doctor that she has high blood pressure, HIGHBPDIAG2 indicates whether she has been told by a doctor on more than one occasion that she has hypertension.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Blood pressure Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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