Ghana - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2006, MICS Round 1

central
Reference ID DDI-GHA-GSS-MICS-2006-v1.0
Year 2006
Country Ghana
Producer(s) Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President
Sponsor(s) United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - Financial and technical assistance
(US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - PEPFAR - Financial and technical assistance
Dutch Government - - Financial and technical assistance
Study website Study website
Created on
Apr 16, 2009
Last modified
Mar 21, 2016
Page views
2202268
Can read part of the sentence (WM14)
File: Women
Overview
Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-9
Valid cases: 5058
Invalid: 4727
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9
Questions and instructions
Literal question
WM14. Now I would like you to read this
sentence to me.
SHOW SENTENCES TO RESPONDENT.
Post question
IF RESPONDENT CANNOT READ WHOLE SENTENCE,
PROBE:
Can you read part of the sentence to me?
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FOR LITERACY TEST:
1. The child is reading a book.
2. The rains came late this year.
3. Parents must care for their children.
4. Farming is hard work.
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 Cannot read at all 3432 67.9%
2 Able to read only parts of sentence 625 12.4%
3 Able to read whole sentence 972 19.2%
4 No sentence in required Language 19 0.4%
5 Blind/visually impaired 5 0.1%
9 Missing 5 0.1%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Ghana Statistical Service (c) 2023.