Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008

Get Microdata

Reference ID

GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

Page views

114785

Has a birth certificate (H_HHBIRTHCERT)

Data file: GHA2008-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 210

End: 211

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

BIRTH REGISTRATION

32. Has (NAME) ever been registered with the civil authority?

1=HAS CERTIFICATION
2=REGISTERED
3=NEITHER
8=DON'T KNOW

Categories

Value	Category
13	Has hospital card only
12	Registered
11	Has certificate
10	Either has certificate or registered birth
99	NIU (not in universe)
98	Missing
97	Don't know
00	Neither certificate nor registered

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

HHBIRTHCERT (HV140) indicates whether the household member's birth is registered or whether the person has a birth certificate.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Core demographic Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

Back to Catalog