Ghana - Ghana Education Impact Evaluation Survey 2003

Reference ID

ID: GHA-GSS-GEIES-2003-v1.0

Year

2003

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

World Bank - - Funding

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

Study website

Created on

Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 14, 2016

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Reason for stopping school (hs2aq18)
File: Household Section 2A (q1 - q12)

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-9

Valid cases: 1048
Invalid: 5100

Questions and instructions

Universe

All household members 5 years old or older

Literal question

When [NAME] stopped school, what was the reason?

Source of information

Household questionnaire

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	School too far	6	0.6%
2	School too expensive	184	17.6%
3	School low quality	5	0.5%
4	Too sick to attend school	9	0.9%
5	parent does not think child would benefit from school	17	1.6%
6	Needed to work at home	31	3.0%
7	other	130	12.4%
8		578	55.2%
9		88	8.4%
Sysmiss		5100

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.