Table 1.
Summary statistics, 2005-2008
|
Year of survey |
|
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | |||||
|
Agea |
26.71 |
26.80 |
26.98 |
26.67 |
|
| |
(19.37) |
(19.45) |
(19.51) |
(19.19) |
|
| |
|
Proportion ( % ) |
|||
|
Female |
50.79 |
50.76 |
50.75 |
51.85 |
|
|
Marital status |
Single/never married |
66.15 |
66.49 |
66.81 |
67.69 |
| |
Married/living together |
27.15 |
27.23 |
27.02 |
26.58 |
| |
Widow/widower |
4.75 |
4.51 |
4.42 |
4.06 |
| |
Divorced/separated |
1.94 |
1.78 |
1.75 |
1.67 |
|
Highest education level |
No schooling |
23.12 |
22.89 |
21.79 |
21.60 |
| |
Primary school |
29.53 |
28.98 |
28.95 |
28.52 |
| |
Secondary school |
45.29 |
46.06 |
47.05 |
47.54 |
| |
Tertiary |
2.06 |
2.07 |
2.21 |
2.33 |
|
Suffer any illness or injury |
|
12.63 |
12.49 |
11.12 |
13.75 |
|
Illness type |
Flu |
7.20 |
7.09 |
5.65 |
7.66 |
| |
Diarrhoea |
0.56 |
0.58 |
0.42 |
0.64 |
| |
Trauma |
0.25 |
0.37 |
0.18 |
0.33 |
| |
Tb |
0.69 |
0.59 |
0.55 |
0.73 |
| |
Drug |
0.06 |
0.05 |
0.03 |
0.07 |
| |
Depression |
0.34 |
0.36 |
0.33 |
0.37 |
| |
Diabetes |
0.65 |
0.60 |
0.55 |
0.77 |
| |
BP |
1.53 |
1.23 |
1.19 |
1.55 |
| |
HIV |
0.15 |
0.16 |
0.20 |
0.28 |
| |
STD |
0.05 |
0.04 |
0.03 |
0.05 |
|
Suffer any disability |
3.22 |
3.12 |
3.01 |
3.36 |
|
|
Disability type |
Sight |
0.70 |
0.70 |
0.63 |
0.83 |
| |
Hearing |
0.49 |
0.50 |
0.46 |
0.52 |
| |
Speech |
0.26 |
0.21 |
0.20 |
0.24 |
| |
Physical |
1.20 |
1.08 |
1.05 |
1.16 |
| |
Intellectual |
0.52 |
0.52 |
0.52 |
0.57 |
| |
Emotional |
0.32 |
0.27 |
0.29 |
0.37 |
| Number of observationsb | 107,987 | 105,727 | 109,975 | 94,097 | |
Source: Author’s computation based on GHS 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Note: aStandard deviations in brackets; bTotal number of individuals in the dataset. Descriptive statistics were computed using only valid responses; so the number of observations will be different for each variable.