Ghana - Ghana Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey - 2003

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-CWIQ II -2003-v2.1

Year

2003

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana statistical service - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Logistical assistance
The World Bank - - Financial and technical assistance

Created on

Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 14, 2016

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Marital status of head of household (hmstat)
File: Household data - CWIQ 2003

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-7

Valid cases: 48989 (4091559)
Invalid: 14 (919)
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 7

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Marital status of head of household

Source of information

Head of household or Household member

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Never married	4276	420294	10.3%
2	Loose/informal union	4268	383074	9.4%
3	Married (monogamous)	24743	2056330	50.3%
4	Married (polygamous)	5084	340020	8.3%
5	Divorced	3754	323277	7.9%
6	Separated	1667	142591	3.5%
7	Widowed	5197	425971	10.4%

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.