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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
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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First intercourse was forced or wanted (B_DV1SEXFORCED)

Data file: GHA2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1123
End: 1123
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1121. The first time you had sexual intercourse, would you say that you had it because you wanted to, or because you were forced to have it against your will?

WANTED TO 1
FORCED TO 2
REFUSED TO ANSWER/NO RESPONSE 3
Categories
Value Category
1 Wanted
2 Forced
7 Refused to answer/no response
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
For women who were randomly selected and interviewed for the domestic violence module, DV1SEXFORCED (D123) indicates whether the respondent's first sexual intercourse was wanted or forced.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Sexual abuse from others Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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