Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008

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Reference ID

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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Why no valid NHIS card (B_NHISNOCARD)

Data file: GHA2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1359

End: 1359

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1015E. Why do you not have a valid NHIS card?

REGISTERED, NOT PAID FULLY 1 (GO TO 1015I)
REGISTERED, CARD NOT RECEIVED 2 (GO TO 1015I)
REGISTERED, WAITING PERIODICALLY 3 (GO TO 1015I)
NOT RENEWED REGISTRATION 4 (GO TO 1015G)
LOST NHIS CARD 5 (GO TO 1015I)
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 6 (GO TO 1015I)

Categories

Value	Category
1	Registered, not paid fully
2	Registered, card not received
3	Registered, waiting period
4	Not renewed registration
5	Lost NHIS card
6	Other
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

NHISNOCARD reports the reason why the woman does not have a valid card for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) of Ghana.

concept

Concept

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

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