Ghana - Ghana Living Standard Survey 4 - 1998, With labour force model

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-GLSS 4-1998-v2.0

Year

1998 - 1999

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Logistical assistance
World Bank - WB - Financial and technical assistance
European Commision - EC - Technical assistance

Metadata

Created on

Apr 06, 2009

Last modified

Mar 21, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: sec2b-Educational Career

Content	Education Carrier-2b section gathers information on vocational and technical school attended
Cases	11939
Variable(s)	22
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), pid (Person ID)
Version	v1.1
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	Household Identification number

pid	Person ID

nh	Household ID

clust	Enumeration area number

s1q23	HH member

s2bq1	Attended tech/voc school

s2bq2	Course years completed

s2bq3	Highest cert achieved

s2bq4	School private/public

s2bq5	Attended tertiary school

s2bq6	Years attended tertiary

s2bq7	Last intitution attended

s2bq8	Highest tertiary qualification

reg	region

region	Administrative region

loc5	Locality (5)

ez	Ecological Zone

loc2	Locality (2)

loc3	Locality (3)

loc7	Locality (7)

weight	Sample weight for GLSS4, =1 for GLSS3

cluster	Cluster number