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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Third reason for having a bank account (s4q10c)
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: 341
Invalid: 2976

Questions and instructions

Literal question

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

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Access a home loan	4	1.2%
2	Access a personal laon	46	13.5%
3	Save	31	9.1%
4	Keep money safe	55	16.1%
5	Managing money better	36	10.6%
6	Access a business loan	14	4.1%
7	Deposit money from employer	2	0.6%
8	Deposit money from own business	7	2.1%
9	Pay insurance	1	0.3%
10	Pay debt	3	0.9%
11	Withdraw money when need	123	36.1%
12	Transfer money safely/cheaply	4	1.2%
13	Don't want a bank account	0	0.0%
14	Other	15	4.4%

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.