Survey Summary

Ghana: Special, 2007
Other Final Reports
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Not Collected
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Ghana
Contract Phase: DHS-V
Implementing Organization: Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)in collaboration with Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health
Fieldwork: October 2007 - January 2008
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 10858
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 10370
Male: No male respondents
Facilities: N/A
Survey Characteristics
  • 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.
  • Alcohol consumption ‹Questions asking about the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • Cooking fuel ‹A question asking the household respondent about the type of cooking fuel used by the household. These are included as part of the core questionnaire.
  • 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.
  • Paper survey ‹Interviews conducted with paper questionnaires which are later entered into a computer at a central office.
  • Pregnancy history ‹A full enumeration of all pregnancies to women interviewed as opposed to a birth history which only includes live births.
  • Verbal autopsy ‹A separate questionnaire administered by a trained medical professional to determine the cause of death, usually for children in selected households.

Footnotes:
Maternal Health Survey Sampling information: Phase I: 240,000 Households, Phase II: 4,203. Verbal Autopsies: 10,858 households and 10,370 women aged 15-49. GHOD51*.ZIP: Death Certificate Forms.