NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Ghana (GHA) Coverage type Country Time period covered 07/2003 - 10/2003 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalGPS coordinates (GIS)HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representative Summary Part of phase 4 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Covers population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Adult mortality, Adverse effects of medical treatments, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Analgesics, Anemia, Anogenital herpes, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antimalarials, Antimotility drugs, Aplastic and other non-nutritional anemias, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Birth weight, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Caesarean section, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Emergency contraception, Employment, Secondhand smoke, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, Headache, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hemoglobin, Hemolytic anemias, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, IUDs, Immunization, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Insecticide-treated bednets, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal care, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menopause, Menstruation, Mortality, Multiple births, Neonatal conditions, Night blindness, Nutrition, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, PMTCT, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Poverty, Pregnancy, Prevalence, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Spermicides, Summary birth history, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional birth control, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vision loss, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Weight change, Yellow fever vaccines, Stillbirths Citation Contributors Ghana Statistical Service Macro International, Inc Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Government of Ghana Publisher ICF International Suggested citation Ghana Statistical Service, Macro International, Inc. Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2003. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 2, 2023