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: sec4d-Underemployment

Content	This section is designed to gather information on employment, time use and focus on secondary occupation during the last 12 months
Cases	233
Variable(s)	30
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

nh	Household ID

s1q23	HH member

clust	Enumeration area number

s4dq1	Third activity

s4dq2a	Years work in third job

s4dq2b	Months in third job

s4dq3	Doing same work

s4dq4	Why not doing same work

s4dq5	Weeks do work

s4dq6	Hours per week worked

s4dq7	Work as second job

s4dq8	Receive money

s4dq9a	Amount for third job

s4dq9b	Time Unit

s4dq10	Hours worked

s4dq11	Employment status

s4dq12	Work for whom

s4dq13	Receive payment in kind

s4dq14a	Value of goods

s4dq14b	Time Unit

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