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

Created on

Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 14, 2016

Page views

1355844

Why never been to school (pq9)
File: Household

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 8
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-9
Invalid: 98, 99

Valid cases: 2860
Invalid: 45090

Questions and instructions

Universe

All household members 5-17 years old

Literal question

If (NAME) is 5 - 17 years old, why has (NAME) never been to school?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	parents cannot afford	1264	44.2%
2	School too far	526	18.4%
3	Not interested in school	488	17.1%
4	Family does not allow schooling	142	5.0%
5	Illness/disabled	60	2.1%
6	Both parents not alive	8	0.3%
7	Father not alive	37	1.3%
8	Mother not alive	30	1.0%
9	other	305	10.7%
98	no response	131
99	Not applicable	44959

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.