Ghana - Ghana Time Use Survey 2009

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-GTUS-2009-v02.

Year

2009

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service

Sponsor(s)

Ghana Statistical Service - GSS - GSS was responsible for overseeing the day-to-day technical operations including recruitment and supervision of field and data processing staff as well as the supervision of the office and field operations
Governmen

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

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Feb 14, 2013

Last modified

May 06, 2016

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Beneficiary of the Activity (ActIni)
File: GTUS 2009 Merged Individual Background & Diary

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 329435
Invalid: 0

Definition

- Household:The household consists of a person or a group of people whether related or not, living together in the same housing unit (dwelling), who generally eat together and share resources to meet their vital needs (e.g. housing, clothing, education, food)
-Head of Household: The head of household is the person whose authority is recognised by all other members of the household. Only one person may be considered as the head of a household

Questions and instructions

Source of information

"Head of Household" or "Household member"

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0		52	0.0%
1	Self	250013	75.9%
2	Household	39757	12.1%
3	Work	24594	7.5%
4	Friend	2756	0.8%
5	Charity	374	0.1%
6	Community	1131	0.3%
7	Child	8047	2.4%
8	Other	2684	0.8%
9		27	0.0%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Interviewers are supposed to carry out the following tasks:
Ø Read all survey materials and understand the contents.
Ø Ensure that all fieldwork materials are brought to field for interviews.
Ø Visit each of the selected households: if you do not get a response at the first visit for any part of the questionnaire, visit the household at least three times at different times and try again. Report all failures to locate respondents to your supervisor. No substitution is allowed.
Ø Carefully complete all relevant parts of the cover page of the questionnaire for each visit.
Ø At the first visit, complete the household part of the questionnaire with the head of household or another knowledgeable adult.
Ø Use the information from the household questionnaire to identify all members aged 7 years

Imputation and Derivation

Derivation

Missing values were recoded by .