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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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Reason for not delivering most recent child in health facility (M_LBORNDELNOTHC)

Data file: GHA2008-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 337
End: 339
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
220. What was the main reason why (NAME)'s mother did not deliver in a hospital or health facility?

COSTS TOO MUCH 01
FACILITY NOT OPEN 02
TOO FAR/NO TRANSPORTATION 03
DON'T TRUST FACILITY/POOR QUALITY SERVICE 04
NO FEMALE PROVIDER AT FACILITY 05
NOT THE FIRST CHILD 06
CHILD'S MOTHER DID NOT THINK IT WAS NECESSARY 07
HE DID NOT THINK IT WAS NECESSARY 08
FAMILY DID NOT THINK IT NECESSARY 09
FAMILY/HUSBAND DID NOT ALLOW 10
NOT CUSTOMARY 11
S/HE DID NOT KNOW WHERE TO GO 12
HE COULD NOT ACCOMPANY HER 13
INCONVENIENT SERVICE HOURS 14
LONG WAITING LINE 15
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 96
DON'T KNOW 98
Categories
Value Category
100 Problems with health facility
110 Facility closed
120 Don't trust facility/poor quality service
121 Don't trust facility
122 Poor quality service
123 Inconvenient service hours
124 Long waiting time
130 No female provider
200 Other access problems
210 Cost too much
220 Too far/no transportation
230 Don't know where to go
240 Security concerns
300 Not necessary
310 Not the first child
320 Mother did not think necessary
330 Respondent did not think necessary
340 Family did not think necessary
350 Not allowed
360 Not customary
400 Timing problems
410 No time to go
420 Unable to accompany mother
995 Other
997 Don't know
998 Missing
999 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
For men with a young child (under age 3 or 4) who was not delivered in a health facility, LBORNDELNOTHC (MV251) reports why the child was delivered elsewhere.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Fertility Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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