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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Decision-maker for using FP (C_FPDECIDER)

Data file: GHA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 639

End: 639

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

720. Would you say that using contraception is mainly your decision, mainly your husband's/partner's decision or did you both decide together?

MAINLY RESPONDENT 1
MAINLY HUSBAND/PARTNER 2
JOINT DECISION 3
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 6

Categories

Value	Category
0	Mainly husband, partner
1	Mainly respondent
2	Joint decision
3	Other
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)
7	Don't know

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 using family planning, FPDECIDER (V632) reports who decided on the use of contraception (mainly the woman, mainly her partner, joint decision, or someone else).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General family planning Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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