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: sec3f-Insurance

Content	Health: Insurance
Cases	36050
Variable(s)	18
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: pid (Person number), hhid (Household Identification 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 for this section is all household members

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

region	Region

urbrur	Urban/rural

ez	Ecological zone

nh	Household number

pid	Person number	Person ID

s3fq1	Registered with health insurance	Has name ever been registered or covered with a health insurance scheme?

s3fq2	Why not registered	If Name has never been registered why?

s3fq3	Still a member	Is Name still registered or covered?

s3fq4	Why not a member	If Name is no longer a member why?

s3fq5	Type of scheme	If Name is registered or covered, what type of scheme is he/she registered with?

s3fq6	Expected benefits from scheme	What are the expected benefits from the scheme?

s3fq7	Payment of premium all/part	Does Name pay all/part of the premium?

s3fq8a	Amount paid	Has Name paid premium for the current insurance year?

s3fq8b	Amount expected to be paid	Has Name paid premium or expected to pay for the current insurance year?

s3fq9	Benefitted from scheme	Has Name benefitted from the scheme?

hhid	Household Identification number

weight	weight