| authors |
Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) |
| Date |
2014-09 |
| Country |
Ghana |
| language |
English |
| publishers |
Centre for Data Archiving, Management, Analysis and Advocacy (C-DAMAA) |
| Description |
The study about children, women and men health, education, reproduction, child motality,environment, child development, child protection ,HIV/AIDS, contraction, and other situation in Ghana |
| Table of contents |
Table of contents
Summary Table i
Table of contents v
List of tables vii
List of abbreviations and acronyms ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xi
Executive Summary xi
I. Introduction 1
Background 1
Survey Objectives 2
The report 2
II. Sample and Survey Methodology 3
Sample Design 3
Questionnaires 3
Training and Fieldwork 5
Data Processing 5
III. Sample Coverage and Characteristics 6
Sample Coverage and Response Rates 6
Characteristics of Households 8
Characteristics of Respondents 11
IV. Child Mortality 15
V. Nutrition 18
Nutritional Status 18
Breastfeeding 20
Salt Iodization 25
Vitamin A Supplements 27
Low Birth Weight 29
VI. Child Health 31
Immunization 31
Tetanus Toxoid 35
Oral Rehydration Treatment 36
Care Seeking and Antibiotic Treatment of Pneumonia 39
Solid Fuel Use 43
Malaria 45
Sources and Costs of Supplies for ITNs and Antimalarials 50
VII. Environment 53
Water and Sanitation 53
Use of improved water sources 53
Household water treatment 55
Time to source water 58
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Person collecting water 58
Use of sanitary means of excreta disposal 61
Disposal of child's faeces 61
Use of improved water sources and improved sanitation 63
Durability of Housing 64
VIII. Reproductive Health 65
Contraception 65
Antenatal Care 67
Assistance at Delivery 71
IX. Child Development 73
X. Education 78
Pre-School Attendance and School Readiness 78
Primary and Secondary School Participation 79
Literacy 86
XI. Child Protection 88
Birth Registration 88
Child Labour 88
Child Discipline 93
Early Marriage and Polygyny 94
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 100
Domestic Violence 102
Child Disability 106
XII. HIV/AIDS, Sexual Behaviour, and Orphaned and Vulnerable Children 108
Knowledge of HIV Transmission 108
Comprehensive knowledge of HIV methods and transmission 111
Knowledge of mother to child transmission 112
Attitude towards people living with HIV and AIDS 113
Knowledge of facility for HIV testing 115
Sexual Behaviour Related to HIV Transmission 119
Condom Use 123
Orphaned and Vulnerable Children 124
List of References 127
Annex A - Sample design 128
Annex B - Personnel 131
Annex C - Sampling errors 133
Annex D - Data quality tables 162
Annex E - Indicators 169
Annex F - Questionnaires 185
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List of tables
III. Sample Coverage and Characteristics
Table HH.1: Results of household and individual interviews................................................................................7
Table HH.2: Household population by age, sex and place of residence .............................................................8
Table HH.3: Household composition ............................................................................................................................10
Table HH.4: Men's and women's background characteristics ..............................................................................12
Table HH.4A: Adult literacy................................................13
Table HH.5: Children's background characteristics .................................................................................................14
IV. Child Mortality
Table CM.1: Child mortality……………………………...1
Table CM.2: Children ever born and proportion dead........................................................................................17
V. Nutrition
Table NU.1: Child malnutrition..........................................19
Table NU 2: Initiation of breastfeeding.............................21
Table NU.3: Breastfeeding....................................................22
Table NU.4: Adequately fed infants...................................24
Table NU.5: Iodized salt consumption (MICS)..................25
Table NU.5A: Iodized salt consumption (DHS).................26
Table NU.6: Children's vitamin A supplementation .........28
Table NU.7: Post-partum Vitamin A supplementation.....29
Table NU.8: Low birth weight infants ................................30
VI. Child Health
Table CH.1: Vaccinations in first year of life .......................32
Table CH.2: Vaccinations by background characteristics.......34
Table CH.3: Neonatal tetanus protection .............................35
Table CH.4: Oral rehydration treatment................................37
Table CH.5: Home management of diarrhoea ......................38
Table CH.6: Care seeking for suspected pneumonia............40
Table CH.7: Antibiotic treatment of pneumonia ...................41
Table CH.7A: Knowledge of the two danger signs of pneumonia....................................................................................42
Table CH.8: Solid fuel u .............................................................44
Table CH.9: Solid fuel use by type of stove or fire .................45
Table CH.10: Availability of insecticide-treated nets .............46
Table CH.11: Children sleeping under bednets ......................47
Table CH.12: Treatment of children with anti-malarial drugs ..48
Table CH.13: Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria...........................................................................................49
Table CH.14: Source of supplies for ITNs ..............................51
Table CH.15: Source and cost of supplies for antimalarials...............................................................................52
VII. Environment
Table EN.1: Use of improved water sources ........................54
Table EN.2: Household water treatment...............................56
Table EN.3: Time to source of water .....................................57
Table EN.4: Person collecting water......................................59
Table EN.5: Use of sanitary means of excreta disposal ......60
Table EN.6: Disposal of child's faeces....................................62
Table EN.7: Use of improved water sources and improved sanitation .....63
Table EN.8: Durability of housing.........................................64
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VIII. Reproductive Health
Table RH.1: Use of contraception ..........................................66
Table RH.2: Antenatal care provider .....................................68
Table RH.3: Antenatal care......................................................70
Table RH.4: Assistance during delivery ................................72
IX. Child Development
Table CD.1: Family support for learning...............................74
Table CD.2: Learning materials ..............................................75
Table CD.3: Children left alone or with other children .......77
X. Education
Table ED.1: Early childhood education .................................79
Table ED.2: Primary school entry ............................................80
Table ED.3: Primary school net attendance ratio...................81
Table ED.4: Secondary School (JSS, SSS) net attendance ratio ......82
Table ED.4A: Secondary School (JSS, SSS) age children attending primary school...........83
Table ED.5: Children reaching grade 5 ...............................84
Table ED.6: Primary school completion and transition to secondary education ............85
Table ED.7: Education gender parity........................................86
Table ED.8: Adult literacy ......................................................87
XI. Child Protection
Table CP.1: Birth registration ..................................................89
Table CP.2: Child labour ...........................................................90
Table CP.3: Labourer students and student labourers..........92
Table CP.4: Child discipline....................................................93
Table CP.5: Early marriage....................................................96
Table CP.5A: Marital status and polygyny.......................97
Table CP.6: Spousal age difference......................................99
Table CP.7: Female genital mutilation / cutting (FGM/C)............102
Table CP.8: Attitudes toward domestic violence: women..........104
Table CP.8A: Attitudes toward domestic violence: men ..........105
Table CP.9: Child disability.......................................107
XII. HIV/AIDS, Sexual Behaviour, and Orphaned and Vulnerable Children
Table HA.1: Knowledge of preventing HIV transmission ................109
Table HA.2: Identifying misconceptions about HIV/AIDS.................110
Table HA.3: Comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission...............112
Table HA.4: Knowledge of mother-to-child HIV transmission.....113
Table HA.5: Attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS....114
Table HA.6: Knowledge of a facility for HIV testing and recent testing: Women...116
Table HA.6A: Knowledge of a facility for HIV testing and recent testing: Men.....117
Table HA.7: HIV testing and counselling coverage during antenatal care......118
Table HA.8A: Sexual behaviour that increases risk of HIV infection.......121
Table HA.9: Condom use and high -risk sex .....122
Table HA.9A: Premarital sex and condom use during premarital sex............123
Table HA.9B: High-risk sex and condom use at last high-risk sex..........124
Table HA.10: Children's living arrangements and orphanhood.......125
Table HA.11: School attendance of orphaned children...126 |
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