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

Created on

Dec 15, 2008

Last modified

Mar 21, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: sec12c-Savings

Content	Credit, assets and savings: Savings
Cases	309
Variable(s)	14
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), s12cq2 (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
Notes	The universe is all household members owning savings account

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

hhid	Household Identification number

region	Region

urbrur	Urban/rural

ez	Ecological Zone

nh	Household number

s12cq1	Have savings account/participate in susu	Does any member of the household have a savings account or participate in Susu?

s12cq2	Item number	Item Number

s12cq3	ID of account holder	In whose name is the account?

s12cq4	Currency of account	In what currency is the account?

s12cq5	Balance of these savings	What is the current balance of these savings?

s12cq6	Amount added to savings in past 12 months	How much has been added to the savings in the past 12 months? (EXCLUDE INTEREST)

s12cq7	Amount withdrawn from savings in past 12 months	How much has been withdrawn from the savings in the past 12 months?

weight	weight