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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Second most important problem to be fixed (j11b)
File: Household data - CWIQ 2003

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-99

Valid cases: 48959 (4088797.2)
Invalid: 44 (3680.8)
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 99

Questions and instructions

Universe

All household included in the survey.

Literal question

People have different opinions about the most important
problems that need to be fixed to make life better. In your
opinion what is the BIGGEST problem facing your
household? What is the SECOND biggest problem? What is
the THIRD biggest problem

Source of information

Head of household or Household member

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Unemployment/no jobs	5358	491776	12.0%
2	Poverty	5209	421040	10.3%
3	Inflation	2164	192827	4.7%
4	Lack of credit/finance	7596	628181	15.4%
5	Taxes	389	37302	0.9%
6	Lack/poor quality of land	1028	64189	1.6%
7	Illness/epidemic	1463	116452	2.9%
8	Lack of health care	3287	256235	6.3%
9	Drinking water	5331	415931	10.2%
10	Sanitation/waste disposal	2653	241544	5.9%
11	Education	5076	410452	10.1%
12	Domestic violence	54	4536	0.1%
13	Social isolation	196	18748	0.5%
14	Fighting between groups	34	3298	0.1%
15	Drunkenness/drug abuse	58	4036	0.1%
16	Housing	3374	297743	7.3%
17	Roads and bridges	2649	208722	5.1%
18	Transportation system	736	66302	1.6%
19	Corruption	220	24193	0.6%
20	Political instability	41	3985	0.1%
21	Politicians	40	5029	0.1%
22	Crime and theft	102	9961	0.2%
23	Violence/security/safety	70	5935	0.1%
24	Frequent interruption of electricity	471	51586	1.3%
25	Negative cultural practices	49	3840	0.1%
26	Other	1245	100099	2.5%

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.