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: Sec4g-Activity status in the past 2 weeks

Content	activity status in the last two weeks
Cases	12048
Variable(s)	38
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

s4gq1	Do any work last 7 days

s4gq2	Which was main occupation

s4gq3b	Hours in occ2

s4gq3c	Hours in occ3

s4gq3d	Hours in occ4

s4gq3e	Total hours worked last 7 days

s4gq4	Want to work more hours

s4gq5	Look for replacement work

s4gq6	Available for work

s4gq7	Why not available

s4gq8	Available for full-time

s4gq9	Made efforts to find work

s4gq10	Why make no effort

s4gq11	What done to find work

s4gq12	Looking for wage/salary work

s4gq13	Work for Govt/state enterprise

s4gq14	Work in private firm

s4gq15	Made effort to work

s4gq16	Seek work in other institution

s4gq17	How long available for work

s4gq18	How long unemployed

s4gq19	Work in last job

s4gq20a	Lowest wage willing to work

s4gq20b	Time Unit

s4gq3a	Hours on main activity

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