Ghana - Population and Housing Census 2000

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-PHC-2000-v1.0

Year

2000

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - 76 per cent of total funding
Department for International Development - DFID - Vehicles, Data capture equipment, generator
United Nations Fund for Population Activities - UNFPA - Technical assistance, advocacy for do

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Nov 21, 2008

Last modified

Mar 14, 2016

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Urban or Rural code (Urbrur)
File: Population

Overview

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

Valid cases: 189868
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 2

Questions and instructions

Pre question

URBRUR is a derived variable

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Urban	83114	43.8%
2	Rural	106754	56.2%

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.

Imputation and Derivation

Derivation

Urban-Rural classification: URBRUR
Variable derived from the population size of localities. All localities with a total population size of 5,000 or more were classified as URBAN, otherwise, it is RURAL.