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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Why stop schooling (pq10)
File: Household

Overview

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

Valid cases: 14138
Invalid: 33812

Questions and instructions

Universe

All household members 5-17 years old

Literal question

If (NAME) is 5 - 17 years old, why has (NAME) never been to school?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	completed school	9779	69.2%
2	school too far	92	0.7%
3	cannot afford schooling	1598	11.3%
4	poor in studies	1411	10.0%
5	failed at school	66	0.5%
6	afraid of teachers	26	0.2%
7	got pregnant	216	1.5%
8	Illness/disabled	192	1.4%
9	To work to supprt self	108	0.8%
10	T work to support self and family	113	0.8%
11	work to obtain capital to set up business	24	0.2%
12	Family does not allow schooling	75	0.5%
13	Both parents not alive	51	0.4%
14	Father not alive	261	1.8%
15	Mother not alive	52	0.4%
16	other	74	0.5%
98	missing response	285
99	not applicable	33527

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.