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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
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Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Needs service not covered by NHIS: Other (B_NHISNEEDOTH)

Data file: GHA2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1370
End: 1370
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1015K. What are these services? Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

FAMILY PLANNING A
LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS B
ANTENATAL CARE C
POSTNATAL CARE D
CARE FOR NEWBORN FOR UP TO 3 MONTHS E
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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
NHISNEEDOTH indicates whether the respondent needs some other (unspecified) service that is not covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) of Ghana. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

concept

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