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: sec2c-Literacy and Apprenticeship

Content	Literacy/apprenticeship-2c section figure out whether the respondent can read and write a simple sentence in any Ghanaian language and can do written calculation
Cases	22254
Variable(s)	28
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

s1q23	HH member

s2cq1	Read letter in English

s2cq2	Read Ghanaian lang

s2cq3	Can write in English

s2cq4	Can write Ghanaian lang

s2cq5	Can do written calculation

s2cq6	Attend literacy class

s2cq7	Been apprentice

s2cq8a	Years in apprentceship

s2cq8b	Months in apprentice

s2cq9	Main trade learnt

s2cq10	Pay fees for training

s2cq11	Amount paid for apprenticeship

s2cq12	Attended short training

s2cq13	Subject of training

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