NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)Microdata access: Request Geography Ghana (GHA) Coverage type Country Time period covered 02/1988 - 06/1988 Series or system DHS Standard Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) DHS Program Surveys Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalHouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representative Summary The Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 1988 is part of phase 1 of the DHS series, a comprehensive, nationally representative household survey. Topics covered in DHS typically include population, education, health, nutrition, family planning and household characteristics. Keywords Adult mortality, Age at first sex, Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Ascariasis, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Body mass index, Breastfeeding, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Complete birth history, Condoms, Contraceptives, DTP vaccines, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Dracunculiasis, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Female infertility, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Height, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household water treatment, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Income, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Land ownership, Languages, Literacy, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Male infertility, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Menopause, Menstruation, Mortality, Neonatal conditions, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Pharmacies, Polio vaccines, Postpartum amenorrhea, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Sanitation, Schistosomiasis, School enrollment, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skilled birth attendants, Summary birth history, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichuriasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Water supply, Weight Citation Contributors Ghana Statistical Service Macro Systems, Inc.; Institute for Resource Development Funders United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Government of Ghana United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Publisher ICF International Suggested citation Ghana Statistical Service, Macro Systems, Inc.; Institute for Resource Development. Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1988. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International. GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022