Table 1.

Descriptive Characteristics of the Sample (women aged 15 and older): 2002 Ghana Population & Environment Survey

Characteristic	All Women	Women Aged 15–49	Women Aged 50 and Older
N	1,436	1,097	339
Proportion in Age Group	1.00 (0.00)	0.78 (0.41)	0.22 (0.41)
Age (mean)	36.37 (17.46)	28.71 (9.49)	63.78 (10.58)
Education
None or Koranic	0.39 (0.49)	0.28 (0.45)	0.76 (0.43)
Primary or middle school (JSS)	0.49 (0.50)	0.57 (0.50)	0.18 (0.38)
Secondary school or higher	0.13 (0.33)	0.15 (0.35)	0.06 (0.23)
Fertility
Children ever born (mean)	3.42 (3.18)	2.43 (2.47)	6.97 (2.91)
Births in the past five years (mean)	0.55 (0.82)	0.70 (0.87)	0.01 (0.10)
Parity Distribution (2002)
Parity 0	0.26 (0.44)	0.32 (0.47)	0.02 (0.14)
Parity 1	0.12 (0.32)	0.14 (0.35)	0.04 (0.18)
Parity 2	0.11 (0.32)	0.14 (0.34)	0.03 (0.17)
Parity 3+	0.51 (0.50)	0.40 (0.49)	0.91 (0.28)
Residence (2002)
Urban (t − 1)	0.58 (0.50)	0.60 (0.49)	0.50 (0.50)
Urban (at age 15)	0.62 (0.49)	0.66 (0.48)	0.49 (0.50)

Notes: Numbers in parentheses are standard deviations. Descriptive statistics are weighted by sample selection probability.