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Demographic and Health Surveys
An 'X' indicates the category is available for that sample
| Code | Label |
ghana
19
|
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Western | X |
| 02 | Central | X |
| 03 | Greater Accra | X |
| 04 | Volta | X |
| 05 | Eastern | X |
| 06 | Ashanti | X |
| 07 | Brong Ahafo | X |
| 08 | Northern | X |
| 09 | Upper East | X |
| 10 | Upper West | X |
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GEO_GH2019 (V101_GH2019) reports the region of Ghana where the respondent was interviewed. DHS regions in the 2019 Ghana survey are equivalent to regions, which constitute the first level of subnational government administration for the country.
Other sample years have their own sample-specific geography variables.
A GIS map for GEO_GH2019 (in shapefile format) can be downloaded from the DHS Program Spatial Data Repository Boundaries page.
GEO_GH2019 (V101_GH2019) is a country- and sample-specific variable and has no comparability issues.
Comparability - Standard DHS
GEO_GH2019, like other V101 variables, is a geographic variable added during processing of the DHS data. V101 (and the equivalent variable of HV024 for household members) is included in all Phases of the DHS.
| Ghana 2019 |
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