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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Reason For Stopping Schooling (sq12)
File: Street Children
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 8
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-16
Invalid: 98, 99
Valid cases: 988
Invalid: 1326
Definition
Why did you stop schooling?
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 Completed school 153 15.5%
2 School too far away 19 1.9%
3 Cannot afford schooling 602 60.9%
4 Poor in studies/not interested in school 69 7.0%
5 Failed at school 8 0.8%
6 Afraid of teachers 11 1.1%
7 Got pregnant 1 0.1%
8 Illness/disabled 6 0.6%
9 To work to support self 38 3.8%
10 To work to support self and other family members 5 0.5%
11 To work to obtain capital to set up own business 7 0.7%
12 Family does not allow schooling 6 0.6%
13 Both parents not alive 6 0.6%
14 Father not alive 27 2.7%
15 Mother not alive 10 1.0%
16 Other 20 2.0%
98 No Response 10
99 Not Applicable 1316
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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