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Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2008

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General Info
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
Microdata access: Request
Geography 
Ghana (GHA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
09/2008 - 11/2008
Series or system 
DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
Child Verbal Autopsy Study (CVAS)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Verbal autopsy
Summary 

The Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2008 is part of phase 5 of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) series. For the 2008 Ghana DHS, 4,916 women ages 15-49 and 4,568 men ages 15-59 were successfully interviewed from 11,778 households.

A follow up survey to the 2008 Ghana DHS called the Ghana Child Verbal Autopsy Study 2008 was conducted with the objective of gathering cause of death information for children under five through interviews with a sub-sample of households that had reported a child death during the 2008 Ghana DHS.

The 2008 Ghana Child VA Study data are included with the 2008 Ghana DHS microdata file release.

Keywords 
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GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 11, 2024