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 |
Metadata | Documentation in PDF |
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Feb 20, 2009
Last modified
Mar 14, 2016
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Variable Groups
- Socio-demographic information about household members
- Economic activities of household members 5 and above
- Housing Characteristics
- Child Data: Information from parents about children 5 - 17 years
- Child Data: Information from children 5 - 17 years
- Socio-demographic characteristics of street children
- Living arrangement of street children
- Parental background of street children
- Economic activities of street children
- Health/Safety issues of street children
- Assistance to street children
Reason for working
(aq61)
File: Child
File: Child
Overview
Type:
Discrete Format: numeric Width: 8 Decimals: 0 Range: 1-8 Invalid: 98, 99 | Valid cases: 6401 Invalid: 10633 |
Questions and instructions
Parents of children 5-17 years old
If (NAME) is working (in economic activity), what is the main reason for letting him/her work?
Value | Category | Cases | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | To supplement household income | 3765 | 58.8% |
2 | To pay outstanding hsehold debt under arrangement | 6 | 0.1% |
3 | To help in household enterprise | 2187 | 34.2% |
4 | Education or training program is not usefull. | 12 | 0.2% |
5 | Education or trainingg institution too far | 27 | 0.4% |
6 | Cannot afford sch. /training fees | 137 | 2.1% |
7 | Child not interested in sch | 112 | 1.7% |
8 | Other | 155 | 2.4% |
98 | Missing response | 170 | |
99 | Not applicable | 10463 |
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.