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 for not having a bank account (s4q12a)
File: Section 4 - Actions and attitudes towards use of financial services and products

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-7

Valid cases: 2481
Invalid: 836

Questions and instructions

Literal question

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 savings account?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Do not have a job	813	32.8%
2	Do not trust financial institutions	50	2.0%
3	It is difficult to provide required documentation	100	4.0%
4	Have no money to save	1445	58.2%
5	Use someone else's account	3	0.1%
6	Don't want to pay user fees	8	0.3%
7	Other	62	2.5%

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.