Ghana - Financial Service Survey 2006
Reference ID | GHA-GSS-FSS-2006-v1.0 |
Year | 2006 |
Country | Ghana |
Producer(s) | Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President |
Sponsor(s) | World Bank - WB - Funding and technical support |
Metadata | Documentation in PDF |
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First reason for not opening account
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File: Section 4 - Actions and attitudes towards use of financial services and products
File: Section 4 - Actions and attitudes towards use of financial services and products
Overview
Type:
Continuous Format: numeric Width: 2 Decimals: 0 Range: 1-12 | Valid cases: 2793 Invalid: 524 |
Questions and instructions
There are many reasons why people do not have a bank account. Please tell me, in the order of importance, the three main reasons why you do not have a bank account?
Value | Category | Cases | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | The charges and fees are too high | 153 | 5.5% |
2 | There are no banks or institutions close to you | 101 | 3.6% |
3 | You do not meet minimum requirements | 652 | 23.3% |
4 | There is too much corruptions | 21 | 0.8% |
5 | Hours of operation not convenient | 12 | 0.4% |
6 | You don't have an identity document | 29 | 1.0% |
7 | You cannot affort to keep a minimum balance in the bank | 506 | 18.1% |
8 | You do not trust banks or other institutions | 16 | 0.6% |
9 | You prefer to deal in cash | 175 | 6.3% |
10 | You are too young to qualify to open an account | 166 | 5.9% |
11 | You never thought about it | 349 | 12.5% |
12 | Other | 613 | 21.9% |
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.