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: Sec12b-Assets and durable consumer goode

Content	assets and durable consumer goode -12b
Cases	19813
Variable(s)	23
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), pid (Economic Head id), hassetcd (HH asset code)
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	Economic Head id

clust	Enumeration Area number

region	Administrative region

nh	Household ID

hassetcd	HH asset code

s12bq1	Does any HH member own item

s12bq2a	How long was item1 obtained

s12bq2b	How long was item2 obtained

s12bq2c	How long was item3 obtained

s12bq3a	Purchase price of item1

s12bq3b	Purchase price of item2

s12bq3c	Purchase price of item3

s12bq4a	How much if sell item1 today

s12bq4b	How much if sell item2 today

s12bq4c	How much if sell item3 today

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