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: Sec4e-Employment search

Content	Employment search-4e activity status and employment search in the last 7 days
Cases	9796
Variable(s)	29
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

s1q23	HH member

clust	Enumeration area number

s4fq1	Weeks without work

s4fq2	Weeks available for work

s4fq3	Available ful-time work

s4fq4	Made efforts to find work

s4fq5	Why not look for work

s4fq6	Actively look work in last 12 months

s4fq7	Why not look for work

s4fq8	What done to find work

s4fq9	Looking for Wage/salary job

s4fq10	Still unemployed

s4fq11	How long been unemployed

s4fq12	Sort of work in last job

s4fq13	Employment type hope for

s4fq14	How to mobilise funds

s4fq15	Receiving any training now

s4fq16	How training financed

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