Ghana - Ghana Living Standard Survey 4 - 1998, With labour force model

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-GLSS 4-1998-v2.0

Year

1998 - 1999

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Logistical assistance
World Bank - WB - Financial and technical assistance
European Commision - EC - Technical assistance

Metadata

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Apr 06, 2009

Last modified

Mar 21, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: sec1-Household Roster

Content	The purpose of this section is to identify usual members of households, and to collect demographic data such as age, sex, marital status etc. regardless of his or her other socioeconomic standing.
Cases	26411
Variable(s)	32
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), pid (Person ID)
Version	V1.1
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

Name	Label	Question
hhid	Household Identification number

pid	Person ID

clust	Enumeration area number

nh	Household ID

sex	sex	sex

rel	Relationship to HH head	Relationship to HH head

agey	Age in years	Age in years

mar	Marital status	Marital status

s1q7	Spouse Lives in this HH	Does Spouse Lives in this household

s1q9	Religion	Religion

s1q10	Region/Country of birth	Region/Country of birth

s1q11	Nationality	Nationality

s1q12	Ethnic group	Ethnic group

s1q13	Father lives in HH	D0es Father lives in household

s1q15	Fathers educ level	Fathers educational level

s1q16	Fathers work	Fathers work

s1q17	Mother live in HH	Does Mother live in household

s1q18	ID of mother

s1q19	Mothers educ level	Mothers educational level

s1q20	Mothers work	Mothers work

s1q21	Months away from HH

s1q22	Living in another HH

s1q23	HH member

reg	region

region	Administrative region

loc5	Locality (5)

ez	Ecological Zone

loc2	Locality (2)

loc3	Locality (3)

loc7	Locality (7)

weight	Sample weight for GLSS4, =1 for GLSS3

cluster	Cluster number