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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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Source of malaria message: Health worker (HH survey) (B_MLSRCHWHH)

Data file: GHA2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 536
End: 536
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
137B. In the past 12 months, have you seen or heard any of the messages about malaria:

a) On the television?
b) On the radio?
c) In a newspaper or magazine?
d) From a poster?
e) From leaflets or brochures?
f) From a health worker?
g) From a Community volunteer?

TELEVISION

YES 1
NO 2

RADIO

YES 1
NO 2

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE

YES 1
NO 2

POSTER

YES 1
NO 2

LEAFLET/BROCHURE

YES 1
NO 2

HEALTH WORKER

YES 1
NO 2

VOLUNTEER

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
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
MLSRCHWHH indicates whether the respondent for the household survey had recently heard message(s) about malaria from a health worker. The question wording varied across surveys; see Comparability.

The information in MLSRCHWHH is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Antimalaria protection Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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