Ghana - Ghana Living Standard Survey 5: 2005, With Non-Farm Household Enterprise Module

Start	End	Cycle
2005-09-04	2006-09-03	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
A two week pilot survey was held in Accra for selected enumerators who later became supervisors during the main survey. There was a one month training for enumerators in Kumasi. Field practice during training were also done in the major languages (akan, ga and hausa).

Five different questionnaires were used for the GLSS 5 survey: PART A, PART B, SECTION 10, COMMUNITY and PRICE questionnaires
PART A Questionnaire comprise:
Section 1: Household roster collecting information on age, sex, marital status, nationality, religion etc.
Section 2: Education- General education, Educational carreer, Literacy and Apprenticeship.
Section 3: Health - Health conditions, Preventive health, Immunisation, Post natal care, Fertility, Contraceptive use and
HIV awareness and Health insurance.
Section 4: Employment and time use, activity status and characteristics of main and secondary jobs, underemployment,
unemployment, employment searchin last 12 months and housekeeping activities.
Section 5: Migration, Domestic and Outbound tourism.
Section 6: Identification of household members for agriculture and Non farm enterprises.
Section 7: Housing characteristics (type of dwelling, utilities and housing expenses), Information technology.

PART B Questionnaire sought information on :
Section 8: Agricultural assets, Land, Livestock and Equipment, Farm details, Harvest and disposal of crops, Seasonality
of sales and purchases of key staples, Other agricultural income in cash and kind, Processing of agricultural
produce and Consumption of own produce.
Section 9: Household expenditure on food and non food, frequently purchased and less frequently purchased items,
Availability of selected consumer items.
Section 10: Basic characteristics of non farm enterprises, Wage earnings, Employment, Revenue of enterprises, (closing
stock, sales and exports), Wholesale and retail activities, Preparation of meals, Other revenue, Expenditure of
enterprises and assets of enterprises.
Section 11: Income transfer and receipts by households, Income and miscellaneous income and expenditure.
Section 12: Credit, assets, consumer goods and Savings.

COMMUNITY Questionnaire:
Section 1: Demographic information of the community ( total population, ethnic groupings etc)
Section 2: Economy and infrastructure
Section 3: Education
Section 4: Health
Section 5: Agriculture

PRICE Questionnaire consist of
Food and Non food prices of selected items

MIGRANTS AND REMITTANCES Questionnaire ***(this dataset is not for public use at the moment)
Migration and Remitances of returned and current migrants , Improvement to dwelling

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Ghana Statistical Service	GSS	Office of the President

Data Collection
Twenty-four teams were involved in the data collection, 20 of which worked during each cycle. Providing for four extra teams afforded each of the 20 regular teams the opportunity to take one month off as annual leave. The leave arrangements were such that there were always 20 teams at work in a given cycle.

Team Composition
For both urban and rural areas, a field team consisted of seven members: one supervisor, one senior interviewer, 3 interviwers, one data cature staff and a driver.

Interviewer Workload
A team of three interviewers worked in three EAs during a 33 day cycle. One interviewer was assigned to work in one EA during a cycle. In both rural and urban areas, each interviewer conducted five interviews per day. Thus, at the end of each 33 day period (one cycle) a team will have interviewed 45 households. The Data Capture staff entered all 45 Part A questionnaires before the team left for the next set of EAs.

An interviewer visited each household in the EA assigned to him/her every third day. Thus an interviewer's workload of 15 households was divided into three batches of five households.