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

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Apr 06, 2009

Last modified

Mar 21, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: sec3a-Health Conditions

Content	This section gathers information on health status of all household members that will be used to measure the cost of medical care and the use made of the different kinds of health services and facilities available.
Cases	25581
Variable(s)	33
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

nh	Household ID

clust	Enumeration area number

pid	Person ID

s1q23	HH member

s3aq0prs	Person responding

s3aq1	Suffered illness/injury	Suffered illness/injury

s3aq2	Days suffered	Days suffered

s3aq3	Have to stop activity	Have to stop activity

s3aq4	Days stopped activity	Days stopped activity

s3aq5	Consulted health pract	Consulted health pract

s3aq6	Whom consulted	Whom consulted

s3aq7	Reason for consultation	Reason for consultation

s3aq8	Consultation place	Consultation place

s3aq9	Consultation place Private/public	Consultation place Private/public

s3aq10	Amount paid for consultation	Amount paid for consultation

s3aq11	Transport cost to place	Transport cost to place

s3aq12	Time taken to go to place	Time taken to go to place

s3aq13	Admitted over night	Admitted over night

s3aq14	How many nights	How many nights

s3aq15	Amount paid for admission	Amount paid for admission

s3aq16	Hospitalized

s3aq17	Buy any medicines

s3aq18	Amount paid for medicines

s3aq19	Who pays for medicines

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