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

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-GLSS-2005-v2.0

Year

2005 - 2006

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GOG - Funding
World Bank - WB - Support
European Union - EU - Support

Metadata

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Dec 15, 2008

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Data Description

Data File: sec1-Household Roster

Content	Household roster: For all persons listed
Cases	1431
Variable(s)	35
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: pid (Person number), hhid (Household Identification number)
Version	version 1.0
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
Notes	The universe for this section is all household members

Variables

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

region	Region

urbrur	Urban/rural

ez	Ecological zone

nh	Household number

pid	Person number	ID of individual

s1q2	Sex of individual	Sex of individual

s1q3	What is the relationship to head of household	What is the relationship of Name to head of household?

s1q4dd	Day Born	What is Name's day of birth?

s1q4mm	Month Born	What is Name's month of birth?

s1q4yy	Year Born	What is Name's year of birth?

s1q5y	Age in years	How old is Name in years?

s1q5m	How old is Name in months	How old is Name in months?

s1q6	What is present marital status	What is Name's present marital status?

s1q7	Does spouse live in household	Does Name's spouse live in this household?

s1q8	ID code of spouse	Copy the ID code of the spouse (if more than one spouse , the first one)

s1q9	At what age did Name first get married or started living with partner	At what age did Name first get married or started living with a partner (age in years) ?

s1q10	What is Name religious denomination	What is Name's religious denomination?

s1q11	region of birth	In what region/country was Name born?

s1q12	What is names nationality	What is Name's nationality?

s1q13	To which ethnic group does name belong	To which ethnic group does name belong?

s1q14	Does names Father live in household?	Does Name's father live in this household?

s1q15	ID of Father	ID of father

s1q16	What was names fathers highest educational level of Father	What was name's father's highest educational level completed?

s1q17	Work done by Father	What kind of work has Name's father done for most of his life?

s1q18	Mother live in household	Does Name's mother live in this household?

s1q19	ID of Mother	ID of mother

s1q20	Educational level of Mother	What was Names mother's highest educational completed?

s1q21	Work done by Mother	What kind of work has Name's mother done for most of her life?

s1q22	Number of months away from Household	For how many months during the past 12 months has Name been away from this household?

s1q23	Member of another household?	While absent is/was Name a member of another household? (including single person household)

s1q24	Household Member?	Household member (CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION OF HOUSEHOLD MEMBER)

hhid	Household Identification number

weight	weight

filter_$	s1q24 = 1 & (s1q5y >=15 \| s1q5y <= 49) & s1q2 = 2 (FILTER)