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

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Data Description

Data File: Housing

Content	Housing Characteristics Buildings originally intended for habitation and used wholly for other purposes, at the time of the census, are excluded from the census coverage, while shelters not intended for habitation but occupied at the time of the census, are included. For each household interviewed, the head of household or any responsible member provided the responses. The housing chracteristics included the following topics: § Type of Dwelling § Main Construction Material for Outer Wall § Main Construction Material for Floor § Main Roofing Materials § Tenure/Holding Arrangement § Rooms occupied by household § Main Source of Lighting § Main Source of Drinking Water § Toilet Facilities § Solid Waste Disposal § Liquid Waste Disposal All variables in Housing dataset were collected except the URBRUR (urban-rural) variable which was derived from the population of localities. All localities with a population size of 5,000 or more were classified as URBAN, otherwise, it is RURAL. The data has a weight of 1.
Cases	38866
Variable(s)	34
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: Region (Region Code), District (District Code), Base (A05 Enumeration Area Base), EA (Enumeration Area Code), Hsenum (A07 Housing Unit or Compound), Hhnum (A08 Household Number)
Version	Version 1.0
Producer	Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Missing Data	For the 2000 Population and Housing Census, missing data was fixed using the Hot-deck imputation technique. N/A -not applicable or skipped variables were left blank.
Processing Checks	All files have been checked for the following: 1. All variables have been clearly defined and labelled 2. All categories (value labels) have been clearly defined 3. All cases have unique identification (no duplicates) 4. The frequencies of expected respondents checked with the actual section and inconsistencies noted. 5. Skip patterns have been verified 6. Structure edits have been performed Validation Validation of scanned data was an activity to correct structural and inconsistency problems identified in the dataset. The validation groups ran the same three 8-hour shifts as the scanning group. For every household that failed the structural and/or consistency checks, the validators recalled the data and image of the questionnaire and made the necessary corrections. This procedure was repeated until all structural and consistency problems of district/region were eliminated. This was a very slow and tedious process since the images, which were on tapes, had to be mounted. Control Mechanism To keep track of the movement of satchels between the documents room and data processing rooms, a number of control mechanisms were introduced. Two control forms were designed for recording the satchel(s) of each EA that were received from, and returned to, the documents room. Centrack, a module program in IMPS, and a logbook kept in the scanning room, were used to track scanned EAs. These were very helpful in rectifying errors during the movement of questionnaires. Editing Editing of the census data involved correcting errors from the field and those introduced during the capturing process. Both Structural Edits and Within Record Edits were used to clean the census data. a) Structural Edits - Structure edits check coverage and relationships between different units: persons, households, housing units, enumeration areas, etc. Specifically, they checked that: · all households and collective quarters records within an enumeration area were present and were in the proper order; · all occupied housing units have person records, but vacant units have no person records; · households have neither duplicate person records, nor missing person records; · enumeration areas have neither duplicate nor missing housing records. - Each EA have the right geographic codes (region, district, locality, EA number, etc...) - Every housing unit in an EA is entered and every record has a valid EA code The Structural edit looked at the following situations: · Geography edits · Hierarchy of records · Correspondence between housing and population records · Editing relationships in a household · Family nuclei b) Within Record Edits: This consisted of validity checks and consistency edits. · Validity checks: were performed to see if the values of individual variables are plausible or lie with a reasonable range. · Consistency edits were performed to ensure that there is coherence between two or more variables. The Top-down editing approach, which starts by editing top priority variables, (such as age, sex, etc.) and moves sequentially through all variables in decreasing priority was used to edit the census data. The Hot Deck or Dynamic Imputation was also used for both missing data and inconsistent/invalid items. The Census Secretariat carefully developed Editing and Imputation rules with written sets of consistency rules and corrections. These rules were translated into three CONCOR editing applications (Pop-Edit.exe, Hse-Edit.exe and Fertility.exe), which were used to 'clean' the data. This was done at the Regional level. Output Dataset The cleaned dataset has the following characters: Format: ASCII (Text file) & SPSS Record-Types: 1 - House Record 2 - Person Record Length: Fixed, 86 characters
Notes	Universe: The Housing dataset contains information on both occupied and vacant housing units

Variables

Name	Label	Question
Reg_dist	Region and District Code

Region	Region Code

District	District Code

Base	A05 Enumeration Area Base

EA	Enumeration Area Code

Locality	A06 Locality Code

Hsenum	A07 Housing Unit or Compound

Hhnum	A08 Household Number

Urbrur	Urban or Rural code

Typeres	A12 Type of residence

A11a	A11a Used supplementary questionnaire

A11b	A11b Continued original questionnaire

A14a	A14a Number of usual members present

A15b	A15b Number of visitors present

A16c	A16c Number of usual members absent

A17t	A17 Total number of members enumerated

Dwelling	H01 Type of dwelling	H01 TYPE OF DWELLING: In what type of dwelling does the household live?

Walls	H02 Main material used for outer walls	H02 OUTER WALL: What is the main construction material used for the outer walls?

Floor	H03 Main material used for floor	H03 FLOOR FINISH: What is the main construction material use for the floor of this dwelling?

Roof	H04 Main material used for roof	H04 ROOF: What is the main material used for the roof?

Tenure	H05 Type of tenancy or holding arrangement	H05 TENURE/HOLDING ARRANGEMENT: What is the present holding/tenancy arrangement for this dwelling?

Owner	H06 Ownership of the dwelling	H06 OWNERSHIP TYPE: Who owns this dwelling?

Rooms	H07a Number of living rooms occupied	H07a ROOMS: How many rooms does this household occupy? (count living rooms, dining rooms, bed rooms, but not bath rooms and kitchens).

Sleeping	H07b Number of sleeping rooms	H07b SLEEPING ROOMS: How many of the rooms in HO7a are designed primarily for sleeping?

Lighting	H08 Main source of lighting	H08 LIGHTING: What is the main source of lighting for your dwelling?

Water	H09 Main source of drinking water	H09 WATER SUPPLY: What is the main source of drinking water for this household?

Toilet	H10a Type of toilet facility used	H10a TOILET FACILITIES: What type of toilet is used by the household?

Owntlet	H10b Exclusive use of toilet facility	H10b Is the toilet used exclusively by the household?

Fuel	H11 Main source of cooking fuel	H11 COOKING FUEL: What is the main source of cooking fuel for this household?

Cook	H12 Type of cooking space	H12 COOKING SPACE (KITCHEN): What type of cooking space does your household have?

Bath	H13 Type of bathing facility in use	H13 BATHING FACILITIES: What type of bathing facility is used by the household?

Solid	H14 Method of disposal of solid waste	H14 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL: How does your household dispose of rubbish (solid waste)?

Liquid	H15 Method of disposal of Liquid waste	H15 LIQUID WASTE DISPOSAL: How does your hosehold dispose of liquid waste?

Weight	Weight