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

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Data Description

Data File: sec2a- General Education

Content	The objective of this section is to measure the level of education or formal schooling of all household members aged five (5) years or more. It is also intended to measure how much was spent on education of household members during the past 12 months, time spent on primary schooling, type of school (public or private) attended and the highest educational qualification achieved, including short training course. Information on adult literacy levels and apprenticeship of persons was also collected in this section.
Cases	22211
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

Variables

Name	Label	Question
hhid	Household Identification number

nh	Household ID

clust	Enumeration area number

pid	Person ID

s1q23	HH member

s2aq1	Ever attended school	Ever attended school

s2aq2	Highest level completed	Highest level completed

s2aq3	Highest educ qualification	Highest educational qualification

s2aq4	Attending school/college	Attending school/college

s2aq5a	Hours spent to/from school	Hours spent to/from school

s2aq5b	Minutes spent

s2aq6	School/registration fees	School/registration fees

s2aq7	PTA contributions	PTA contributions

s2aq8	Uniforms/sports cloths expenses	Uniforms/sports cloths expenses

s2aq9	Books/school supplies expenses	Books/school supplies expenses

s2aq10	Transport to/from expenses

s2aq11	Food/board/lodging expenses	Food/board/lodging expenses

s2aq12	Other(extra classes) expenses	Other(extra classes) expenses

s2aq13	In-kind expenses	In-kind expenses

s2aq13a	Total school expenses	Total school expenses

s2aq14	Who paid expenses	Who paid expenses

s2aq15	Have a scholarship	Have a scholarship

s2aq16	Amount of scholarship	Amount of scholarship

s2aq17	Left school now

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