Ghana - Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998, Round 3

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0

Year

1998

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Financial Assistance
United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Financial Assistance

Metadata

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Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

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Data Description

Data File: REC71

Cases	4843
Variable(s)	28
Producer	Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Missing Data	Prior to 2008, missing data and not applicable data were left as blank. These values are not differentiated. The current policy is to identify the missing data as follows: -a coded value would be composed of 9s such that the entire length of the field is filled. For example a code of' '999' would be used for a missing field of three characters. -not applicable or skipped variables are left blank
Processing Checks	All files have been checked for the following: 1. All variables have been clearly defined and labelled 2. All categories (value labels) have been clearly defined 3. All cases have unique identification (no duplicates) 4. The frequencies of expected respondents checked with the actual section and inconsistencies noted. 5. Skip patterns have been verified 6. Structure edits have been performed

Name	Label	Question
hhid	Case Identification

caseid	Case Identification

v701	Partner's education level

v702	Highest year of education

v704	Partner's occupation

v705	Partner's occupation

v707	Type of land where works

v714	Respondent currently working

v715	Husbands education-single yrs

v716	Respondent's occupation

v717	Respondent's occupation

v718	Current type of employment

v719	Work for family, others, self

v720	Earns cash for work

v721	Works at home or away

v723	Child minder

v729	Partner's educational attainm.

v730	Partners age

v731	Worked in last 12 months

v732	Employment all year/seasonal

v733	Months worked in last 12 mnths

v734	Days in a week normally work

v735	Days worked in last 12 months

v736	Earnings for work

v737	Daily earnings for work

v738	Yearly earnings for work

v739	Who decides how to spend money

v740	Type of land where resp. works