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

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Nov 05, 2010

Last modified

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Main purpose for taking a loan from any other bank in past 12 months (s4q29)
File: Section 4 - Actions and attitudes towards use of financial services and products

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-6

Valid cases: 39
Invalid: 3278

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What was the main reason for which you took out this loan? If more than one loan, refer to the most recent.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Purchase goods for household, travel, vehicle, celebrations	8	20.5%
2	Purchase, build or renovate a house	5	12.8%
3	Purchase goods for business	12	30.8%
4	To pay unforseen costs	6	15.4%
5	Agriculture or livestock	3	7.7%
6	Other	5	12.8%

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.