Ghana - Ghana Child Labour Survey - 2001

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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Feb 20, 2009

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Why stop schooling (pq10)
File: Child

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 8
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-16
Invalid: 98, 99

Valid cases: 971
Invalid: 16063
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 16

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Why did (NAME) stop schooling?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	completed school	385	39.6%
2	school too far	26	2.7%
3	cannot afford schooling	190	19.6%
4	poor in studies	263	27.1%
5	failed at school	12	1.2%
6	afraid of teachers	9	0.9%
7	got pregnant	7	0.7%
8	Illness/disabled	26	2.7%
9	To work to supprt self	10	1.0%
10	T work to support self and family	4	0.4%
11	work to obtain capital to set up business	1	0.1%
12	Family does not allow schooling	3	0.3%
13	Both parents not alive	1	0.1%
14	Father not alive	11	1.1%
15	Mother not alive	3	0.3%
16	other	20	2.1%
98	missing response	41
99	not applicable	16022

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.