Ghana - Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998, Round 3

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0

Year

1998

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Financial Assistance
United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Financial Assistance

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Feb 20, 2009

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Mar 12, 2016

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Respondent's occupation (mv716)
File: MREC71

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 3
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-99
Invalid: 999

Valid cases: 1546
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 99

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not working	268	17.3%
1	Physical scientists and rel. techn.	0	0.0%
2	Architects	6	0.4%
3	Engineers and related techn.	2	0.1%
4	Aircraft and ship officers	1	0.1%
5	Life scientists and rel. tech.	1	0.1%
6	Medical, dental, veterinary and rel. workers	7	0.5%
7	Professional nurses	1	0.1%
8	Statisticians, mathematicians, system anal. and rel. workers	0	0.0%
9	Economists	0	0.0%
11	Accountants	3	0.2%
12	Jurists (eg. lawyers, judges)	0	0.0%
13	Teachers	54	3.5%
14	Workers in religion	3	0.2%
15	Authors, journalists and rel. workers	0	0.0%
16	Sculptors, painters, photographers and rel. creative art.	0	0.0%
17	Composers and performing artists	0	0.0%
18	Athletes, sportsmen and rel. workers	1	0.1%
19	Professional, technical & rel. workers not elsewhere class.	15	1.0%
20	Legislative officers and government workers	3	0.2%
21	Managers (excluding farm managers)	1	0.1%
30	Clerical and related workers	9	0.6%
31	Government executive officials	2	0.1%
32	Stenographers, typists and data entry operators	0	0.0%
33	Book-keepers, cashiers and related workers	1	0.1%
34	Computer machine operators	0	0.0%
35	Transport and communications supervisors	0	0.0%
36	Transport conductors	1	0.1%
37	Mail distribution clerks	0	0.0%
38	Telephone and telegraph operators	0	0.0%
39	Clerical and related workers not elsewhere class.	1	0.1%
40	Managers (wholesale and retail trade)	0	0.0%
41	Working proprietors (wholesale and retail trade)	43	2.8%
42	Sales supervisors and buyers	1	0.1%
43	Technical salesmen, commercial travellers and man. agents	2	0.1%
44	Insurance, real estate and business serv. salesmen and auct.	0	0.0%
45	Salesmen, shop assistants and related workers	5	0.3%
49	Sales workers not elsewhere classified	27	1.7%
50	Managers (catering, lodging service)	0	0.0%
51	Working proprietors (catering and lodging services)	0	0.0%
52	Housekeeping and related service supervisors	0	0.0%
53	Cooks, waiters, bartenders and related workers	1	0.1%
54	Maids and rel. housekeeping service workers	0	0.0%
55	Building caretakers, charworkers, cleaners and rel. workers	3	0.2%
56	Launderers, dry-cleaners and pressers	0	0.0%
57	Hairdressers, barbers, beauticians and related workers	5	0.3%
58	Protective service workers	17	1.1%
59	Service workers not elsewhere classified	72	4.7%
60	Farm managers and supervisors	1	0.1%
61	Farmers	678	43.9%
62	Agricultural and animal husbandry workers	11	0.7%
63	Forestry workers	0	0.0%
64	Fishermen, hunters and related workers	20	1.3%
69	Unemployed and new workers searching for employment	19	1.2%
70	Production supervisors and general foremen	1	0.1%
71	Miners, quarrymen, well drillers and related workers	5	0.3%
72	Metal processors	2	0.1%
73	Wood preparation workers and paper makers	0	0.0%
74	Chemical processors and related workers	0	0.0%
75	Spinners, weavers, knitters, dyers and related workers	2	0.1%
76	Tanners, fishmongers and pelt pressers	0	0.0%
77	Food and beverage processors	19	1.2%
78	Tobacco preparers and tobacco product makers	0	0.0%
79	Tailors, dressmakers, sewers, upholsterers, and rel. workers	27	1.7%
80	Shoemakers and leather goods makers	3	0.2%
81	Cabinet makers and related wood workers	1	0.1%
82	Stone carvers and stone cutters	1	0.1%
83	Blacksmith, toolmakers and machine tool operators	7	0.5%
84	Machinery, fitters, machine assemblers and prec. inst. maker	29	1.9%
85	Electrical fitters and rel. electrical and electronics work.	21	1.4%
86	Broadcasting stations, sound equipment and cinema operators	0	0.0%
87	Plumbers, welders, sheet-metal and strucural metal preparers	6	0.4%
88	Juwelry and precious metal workers	0	0.0%
89	Glass formers, potters and related workers	1	0.1%
90	Rubber and plastic product makers	2	0.1%
91	Paper and paperboard product makers	0	0.0%
92	Printers and related workers	3	0.2%
93	Painters	8	0.5%
94	Production and rel. workers not elsewhere classified	6	0.4%
95	Bricklayers, carpenters and other construction workers	87	5.6%
96	Stationary engine and related equipment workers	0	0.0%
97	Mat. handling and rel. eq. workers, dockers, freight handler	4	0.3%
98	Transport equipment operators	3	0.2%
99	Labourers not elsewhere classified	22	1.4%

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.