Ghana - Ghana Living Standards Survey 2:1988-1989, Second round

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-GLSS2-2008-v2.0

Year

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Funding
The World Bank - WB - Funding and Technical Assistance

Metadata

Created on

Dec 15, 2008

Last modified

Mar 14, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: Y11C-durable goods

Cases	3867
Variable(s)	16
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (HOUSEHOLD IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (CLUST,NH)), itemno (11CQ1A: ITEM NUMBER)
Producer	Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Missing Data	Prior to 2008, missing data and not applicable data were left as blank. These values are not differentiated. The current policy is to identify the missing data as follows: -a coded value would be composed of 9s such that the entire length of the field is filled. For example a code of' '999' would be used for a missing field of three characters. -not applicable or skipped variables are 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

Name	Label	Question
cid	CARD TYPE

clust	CLUSTER NUMBER

nh	HOUSEHOLD NUMBER

hhid	HOUSEHOLD IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (CLUST,NH)

itemno	11CQ1A: ITEM NUMBER

goodcd	11CQ1B: CODE OF GOODS OWNED

goodacq	11CQ2: YEAR GOOD ACQUIRED

goodcost	11CQ3: COST AT ACQUISITION

goodcv	11CQ4: CURRENT VALUE OF THE GOOD

region	REGION

ez	ECOLOGICAL ZONE

loc2	TYPE OF LOCALITY 2

loc3	TYPE OF LOCALITY 3

loc4	TYPE OF LOCALITY 4

loc5	TYPE OF LOCALITY 5

weight	WEIGHTS