Ghana - Ghana Child Labour Survey - 2001

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-CLS-2001-v1.0

Year

2001

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service - Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Funding
International Labour Organisation - ILO - Funding

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Reason For Stopping Schooling (sq12)
File: Street Children

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 8
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-16
Invalid: 98, 99

Valid cases: 988
Invalid: 1326

Definition

Why did you stop schooling?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Completed school	153	15.5%
2	School too far away	19	1.9%
3	Cannot afford schooling	602	60.9%
4	Poor in studies/not interested in school	69	7.0%
5	Failed at school	8	0.8%
6	Afraid of teachers	11	1.1%
7	Got pregnant	1	0.1%
8	Illness/disabled	6	0.6%
9	To work to support self	38	3.8%
10	To work to support self and other family members	5	0.5%
11	To work to obtain capital to set up own business	7	0.7%
12	Family does not allow schooling	6	0.6%
13	Both parents not alive	6	0.6%
14	Father not alive	27	2.7%
15	Mother not alive	10	1.0%
16	Other	20	2.0%
98	No Response	10
99	Not Applicable	1316

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.