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

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Nov 05, 2010

Last modified

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First reason respondent might like to have a bank account (s4q6a)
File: Section 4 - Actions and attitudes towards use of financial services and products

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-14

Valid cases: 2793
Invalid: 524

Questions and instructions

Literal question

In order of importance, what is(are) the reason(s) you might like to have a bank account?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Access a home loan	78	2.8%
2	Access a personal laon	219	7.8%
3	Save	800	28.6%
4	Keep money safe	903	32.3%
5	Managing money better	167	6.0%
6	Access a business loan	36	1.3%
7	Deposit money from employer	2	0.1%
8	Deposit money from own business	28	1.0%
9	Pay insurance	0	0.0%
10	Pay debt	27	1.0%
11	Withdraw money when need	272	9.7%
12	Transfer money safely/cheaply	10	0.4%
13	Don't want a bank account	144	5.2%
14	Other	107	3.8%

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.