Ghana: Maternal Health Survey, 2017 |
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| Summary Reports/Key Findings |
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| Other Dissemination Materials |
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| Other Final Reports |
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| General Fact Sheets |
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| Survey Presentations |
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| Policy Briefs |
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HIV Testing
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
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| Country: |
Ghana |
| Contract Phase: |
DHS-7 |
| Implementing Organization: |
Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)in collaboration with Ghana Health Service |
| Fieldwork: |
June 2017 -
October 2017 |
| Status: |
Completed |
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| Respondents |
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| Households: |
Sample Size:
26324 |
| Female: |
All Women
Age:
15
to 49
Sample Size:
25062
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| Male: |
No male respondents
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| Facilities: |
N/A
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Features
Abortion
Abortion Questions asking women about pregnancies that ended in an abortion. Includes pregnancy histories where abortion is mentioned as an outcome or when a question such as "Did you or someone else do something to end this pregnancy?" is used. |
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CAPI survey
CAPI survey Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop. |
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Causes of death
Causes of death Questions asking about cause of death but not a full verbal autopsy. See also the verbal autopsy module and the accident and injury module. |
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Fieldworker characteristics
Fieldworker characteristics A set of questions asking about the characteristics of all fieldworkers and included in a separate dataset. These data can be merged with survey responses to explore interviewer effects. |
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GPS/georeferenced
GPS/georeferenced Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents. |
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Health insurance
Health insurance Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men. |
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Pregnancy history
Pregnancy history A full enumeration of all pregnancies to women interviewed as opposed to a birth history which only includes live births. |
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Modules
Disability
Disability A set of questions asking about physical disabilities of each household member age 5 and older. |
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Maternal mortality
Maternal mortality A set of questions asking about all siblings of the respondent (children born to the respondent's biological mother) concerning their sex, age, survival status, and whether the death was pregnancy-related. Questions are used to estimate maternal mortality, pregnancy-related mortality, and adult mortality. Typically asked of women only but in some surveys asked of men as well. |
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Verbal autopsy
Verbal autopsy A separate questionnaire administered by a trained medical professional to determine the cause of death, usually for children in selected households. |
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