Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for people enrolled in NHIS
| DHS (2014) |
MICS (2011) |
GLSS (2012–13) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women (%) | Men (%) | Women (%) | Men (%) | Women (%) | Men (%) | |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Not married | 29.1 | 29.9 | 21.6 | 17.8 | 33.3 | 27.9 |
| Married | 38.4 | 32.0 | 31.3 | 20.2 | 35.7 | 32.1 |
| Sex of household head | ||||||
| Female | 31.3 | 30.5 | 24.8 | 20.0 | 33.3 | 31.0 |
| Male | 36.3 | 31.1 | 29.0 | 18.9 | 36.1 | 31.3 |
| Children at home | ||||||
| No | 30.4 | 29.3 | 23.6 | 21.9 | 34.4 | 32.1 |
| Yes | 36.8 | 33.4 | 29.9 | 20.1 | 36.6 | 28.9 |
| Pregnant | ||||||
| No | 33.1 | 26.8 | 39.3 | |||
| Yes | 50.2 | 36.6 | 48.2 | |||
| Age classes | ||||||
| 15–19 (<20 for GLSS) | 31.3 | 34.7 | 23.1 | 22.7 | 34.6 | 34.8 |
| 20–24 | 29.7 | 26.7 | 27.2 | 11.2 | 31.1 | 27.8 |
| 25–29 | 37.0 | 22.4 | 27.2 | 19.4 | 34.4 | 21.3 |
| 30–34 | 38.4 | 26.1 | 32.2 | 18.0 | 33.3 | 24.2 |
| 35–39 | 39.0 | 36.0 | 29.6 | 21.7 | 37.1 | 24.1 |
| 40–44 | 32.7 | 33.0 | 26.8 | 18.0 | 36.3 | 28.2 |
| 45–49 | 32.5 | 37.3 | 28.2 | 16.2 | 35.1 | 28.4 |
| 50–54 | 32.0 | 24.6 | 37.0 | 29.1 | ||
| 55–59 | 37.5 | 19.6 | 42.5 | 37.4 | ||
| Wealth index | ||||||
| Poorest | 32.9 | 35.6 | 21.5 | 14.4 | 32.8 | 25.7 |
| Poorer | 36.7 | 26.3 | 25.5 | 20.9 | 33.1 | 28.6 |
| Middle | 35.2 | 25.7 | 25.6 | 15.3 | 35.7 | 31.0 |
| Richer | 33.4 | 30.6 | 30.3 | 19.6 | 35.1 | 32.8 |
| Richest | 33.9 | 35.9 | 32.3 | 23.2 | 37.8 | 35.6 |
| Education | ||||||
| No education | 33.5 | 34.2 | 24.6 | 16.9 | 33.9 | 30.3 |
| Primary | 33.5 | 23.6 | 24.0 | 15.6 | ||
| Middle | 34.8 | 29.3 | 27.5 | 17.9 | ||
| Secondary/higher | 35.0 | 37.1 | 34.8 | 23.2 | ||
| Primary not completed | 32.8 | 31.0 | ||||
| Completed primary | 30.0 | 30.0 | ||||
| Lower secondary | 35.0 | 26.7 | ||||
| Upper secondary | 45.7 | 29.8 | ||||
| Post-secondary | 42.4 | 33.1 | ||||
| University and higher | 38.8 | 40.6 | ||||
| Having hypertension | ||||||
| No | 34.1 | 29.9 | ||||
| Yes | 37.5 | 49.7 | ||||
| Morbidity | ||||||
| No | 31.0 | |||||
| Yes | 32.8 | |||||
| Disability | ||||||
| No | 35.1 | 31.2 | ||||
| Yes | 36.1 | 35.8 | ||||
| Occupation | ||||||
| Not working | 34.9 | 39.7 | 35.2 | 34.6 | ||
| Professional/technical/managerial | 38.5 | 40.8 | ||||
| Clerical | 45.6 | 37.0 | ||||
| Sales | 33.6 | 26.6 | ||||
| Agriculture | 34.5 | 31.6 | ||||
| Services | 36.7 | 42.6 | ||||
| Skilled manual | 32.2 | 23.9 | ||||
| Unskilled manual | 34.8 | 21.9 | ||||
| Paid employee | 36.4 | 28.6 | ||||
| Non-agric s.e. with employees | 36.3 | 28.2 | ||||
| Non-agric s.e. without employees | 35.1 | 24.9 | ||||
| Non-agric family worker | 32.6 | 35.9 | ||||
| Agric s.e. with employees | 32.3 | 29.9 | ||||
| Agric s.e. without employees | 36.9 | 26.3 | ||||
| Agric family worker | 34.5 | 32.6 | ||||
| Domestic employee | 25.2 | 13.1 | ||||
| Casual workers | 44.4 | 18.6 | ||||
| Type of place of residence | ||||||
| Rural | 35.3 | 28.6 | 28.0 | 19.0 | 34.8 | 30.9 |
| Urban | 33.5 | 33.3 | 27.3 | 19.2 | 35.5 | 31.7 |
| Regions | ||||||
| Western | 39.8 | 27.3 | 24.1 | 19.1 | 24.4 | 23.7 |
| Central | 23.4 | 19.2 | 13.1 | 9.4 | 27.8 | 24.5 |
| Greater Accra | 26.1 | 18.1 | 15.9 | 8.5 | 28.9 | 24.7 |
| Volta | 54.0 | 31.7 | 25.5 | 11.6 | 38.1 | 32.2 |
| Eastern | 34.9 | 26.2 | 28.1 | 23.1 | 39.0 | 31.8 |
| Ashanti | 33.3 | 37.6 | 42.6 | 27.0 | 30.9 | 27.8 |
| Brong Ahafo | 48.9 | 46.9 | 34.7 | 29.2 | 49.2 | 43.9 |
| Northern | 29.4 | 42.6 | 21.1 | 14.2 | 33.1 | 30.8 |
| Upper east | 31.1 | 55.7 | 33.7 | 19.7 | 59.7 | 56.8 |
| Upper west | 40.3 | 40.9 | 42.5 | 30.3 | 58.8 | 54.7 |
DHS 2014, MICS, 2011 and GLSS 2012–13.
s.e., ‘self-employed’.