Ghana - Ghana Living Standards Survey 3 -1991, Third round

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-GLSS 3-1991-v2.1

Year

1991 - 1992

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Goverment of Ghana - GoG - Logistical assistance
The World Bank - - Support in all aspect of the survey
European Union - EU - Support in all aspect of the survey

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Feb 20, 2009

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Data Description

Data File: Expenditures -1st, 2nd and 3rd enterprises - s10b

Content	Expenditures -1st, 2nd and 3rd enterprises
Cases	6498
Variable(s)	29
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), bid (), bexpcd (Expenditure item code)
Version	V2.0
Producer	Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Missing Data	Prior to 2008, missing data and not applicable data were left as blank. These values are not differentiated. The current policy is to identify the missing data as follows: -a coded value would be composed of 9s such that the entire length of the field is filled. For example a code of' '999' would be used for a missing field of three characters. -not applicable or skipped variables are left blank
Processing Checks	All files have been checked for the following: 1. All variables have been clearly defined and labelled 2. All categories (value labels) have been clearly defined 3. All cases have unique identification (no duplicates) 4. The frequencies of expected respondents checked with the actual section and inconsistencies noted. 5. Skip patterns have been verified 6. Structure edits have been performed

Variables

Name	Label	Question
hhid	Household Identification number

clust	Cluster id

nh	Household id

bid

bexpcd	Expenditure item code

s10bq2	Has enterprise spent on anything	Has enterprise spent on anything

s10bq3	Do you pay for anything at least once a week	Do you pay for anything at least once a week

s10bq4	How many times was item paid for in the 12 months	How many times was item paid for in the 12 months

s10bq5	How many times do you pay/purchase item in a year	How many times do you pay/purchase item in a year

s10bq6

s10bq7

s10bq8	Any item ever unavailable	Any item ever unavailable

s10bq9	Has enterprise spent on any of these items	Has enterprise spent on any of these items

s10bq10	Do you usually pay item once a week	Do you usually pay item once a week

s10bq11	How many times do you usually purchase/pay for item in a week	How many times do you usually purchase/pay for item in a week

s10bq12

s10bq13

s10bq14

s10bq15	Was any item unavailable in the past 12 months

pid	Economic Head id

loc5	Locality (5)

ez	Ecological Zone

region	Administrative region

loc2	Locality (2)

loc3	Locality (3)

loc7	Locality (7)

weight	Sample weight for GLSS4, =1 for GLSS3

welfare	Welfare Index (=expendc/(povpi*eqsc))

cluster	Cluster number