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

Metadata

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Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 12, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: Credit assets and savings-s12a1

Content	Credit assets and savings-s12a1
Cases	4508
Variable(s)	8
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

s12aq1	Does any HH member owe money	Does any HH member owe money

s12aq2	Has loan been fully paid	Has loan been fully paid

weight	Sample weight for GLSS4, =1 for GLSS3

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

cluster	Cluster number