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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Reason for idleness (aq42)
File: Child

Overview

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

Valid cases: 830
Invalid: 16204

Questions and instructions

Universe

All household members 5-17 years old

Literal question

If "Yes" in above, give the main reason

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Sickness	151	18.2%
2	Laziness	47	5.7%
3	Travelled	22	2.7%
4	Not in house	68	8.2%
5	Domestic employee available	7	0.8%
6	Not given work to do	119	14.3%
7	Too young to work	396	47.7%
8	Disability	20	2.4%
98	Missing response	0
99	Not applicable	16204

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.