Ghana - National Transport Household Survey, 2007

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-NTHS-2007-v1.0

Year

2007 - 2008

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service - Autonomous

Sponsor(s)

Danish International Development Agency - DANIDA - Provided funding for the survey

Metadata

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Jul 13, 2012

Last modified

Dec 05, 2013

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Reason why name chose to live here (TP19)
File: General transport use by household members

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-99

Valid cases: 18329
Invalid: 745

Questions and instructions

Universe

This question was answered by all household members aged 6 years and older

Literal question

What is the main reason why (NAME) chose to live here?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Proximity to workplace	1429	7.8%
2	Proximity to school	486	2.7%
3	Proximity to market	85	0.5%
4	Proximity to health facility	61	0.3%
5	Proximity to access road	102	0.6%
6	Proximity to water way	88	0.5%
7	Proximity to railine	7	0.0%
8	Easy to get transport to town	310	1.7%
9	Proximity to agricultural heart land	1218	6.6%
10	Proximity to transport terminal	68	0.4%
11	Family house	8977	49.0%
12	Cost of housing cheap	824	4.5%
13	No alternative	2732	14.9%
14	Marriage	1342	7.3%
16		1	0.0%
96	Other specify	597	3.3%
99		2	0.0%
Sysmiss		745

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.