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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First sexual partner younger, same age, or older (W_SX1STPARELAGE)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 967

End: 968

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

623. How old was the person you first had sexual intercourse with?

AGE OF PARTNER __ (GO TO 626)
DON'T KNOW 98

Categories

Value	Category
10	Younger
20	About the same
30	Older
31	Less than 10 years older
32	10 or more years older
33	Older, don't know difference
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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 young women, SX1STPARELAGE (V831) reports whether the woman's first sexual partner was younger, about the same age, or older than her.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
First or ever sexual experience Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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