Survey Summary

Ghana: Special, 2017
Summary Reports/Key Findings
Other Dissemination Materials
Other Final Reports
General Fact Sheets
Survey Presentations
Policy Briefs
Survey Datasets
Data Available
HIV Testing
Not Collected
GPS Datasets
Data Available
SPA Datasets
Not Applicable
Country: Ghana
Contract Phase: DHS-VII
Implementing Organization: Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)in collaboration with Ghana Health Service
Fieldwork: June 2017 - October 2017
Status: Completed
Respondents  
Households: Sample Size: 26324
Female: All Women
Age: 15 to 49
Sample Size: 25062
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.
  • CAPI survey ‹Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing. Interviews conducted directly on a tablet or laptop.
  • 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.
  • Disability ‹A set of questions asking about physical disabilities of each household member age 5 and older.
  • 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.
  • GPS/georeferenced ‹Surveys with latitude and longitude coordinates for survey clusters. Note that cluster coordinates are randomly displaced to protect the privacy of respondents.
  • Health insurance ‹Questions asking about individual health insurance status. Can be asked of women and/or men.
  • 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.
  • 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