Ghana - Ghana Living Standards Survey : 1987-1988, First round

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Reference ID GHA-GSS-GLSS-1988-V1.0
Year 1987 - 1988
Country Ghana
Producer(s) Ghana Statistical Service - Office of the President
Sponsor(s) World Bank - -
Created on
Feb 20, 2009
Last modified
Mar 14, 2016
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Data Description

Data File: Household Section 4

Content Section 4: Health
Cases 15064
Variable(s) 28
Structure:Type: relational
Keys: Pn (Person id), Hhid (Household id (clust,nh))
Version Version 1.0 (July 2008)
Producer Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
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 Weights are not computed. This is because there were not enough informations on how the weights were imputed against the variables.

Variables

NameLabelQuestion
Clust Cluster
Cid Card type
Nh Household number
Pn Person id
Illm 04q1: ill/injured in last 4 wee
Wheni 04q2a: how long ago ill/injured
Wheniu 04q2b: time unit
Daysi 04q3: no of days ill
Daysin 04q4: no of days inactive due t
Illc 04q5: consulted anyone for illn
Whoc 04q6: who was consulted first?
Wherec 04q7: place of consultation
Typc 04q8: public/private establishe
Hrscon 04q9a: hrs to reach place of co
Mincon 04q9b: mins to reach place of c
Distcon 04q10a: distance to place of co
Distconu 04q10b: distance code
Timesc 04q11: no of times consulted
Costc 04q12: total cost of consultati
Illo 04q13: spend night in hosp for
Illno 04q14: no of nights away due to
Costhos 04q15: cost of hospital stay
Costran 04q16: cost of transportation
Costmed 04q17: cost of medicine
Prevent 04q18: preventive care in last
Costpre 04q19: cost of preventive care
Nobrth 04q20: number of births- women
Hhid Household id (clust,nh)
Total variable(s): 28

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