Ghana - Ghana Child Labour Survey - 2001

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Reference ID GHA-GSS-CLS-2001-v1.0
Year 2001
Country Ghana
Producer(s) Ghana Statistical Service - Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
Sponsor(s) Government of Ghana - GoG - Funding
International Labour Organisation - ILO - Funding
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Why never been to school (pq9)
File: Child
Overview
Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 8
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-9
Invalid: 98, 99
Valid cases: 2860
Invalid: 14174
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9
Questions and instructions
Literal question
If (NAME) is 5 - 17 years old, why has (NAME) never been to school?
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 parents cannot afford 1264 44.2%
2 School too far 526 18.4%
3 Not interested in school 488 17.1%
4 Family does not allow schooling 142 5.0%
5 Illness/disabled 60 2.1%
6 Both parents not alive 8 0.3%
7 Father not alive 37 1.3%
8 Mother not alive 30 1.0%
9 other 305 10.7%
98 no response 131
99 Not applicable 14043
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.

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