Ghana - Financial Service Survey 2006

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-FSS-2006-v1.0

Year

2006

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

World Bank - WB - Funding and technical support

Metadata

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Nov 05, 2010

Last modified

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Data Description

Data File: Section 1 - Respondent characteristics

Content	The file contains information on the background of household members. Some of the housholds were enumerated in the GLSS5 from which the EAs were drawn and so do not answer some questions. Information relate to age, sex, marital status, relationship to head of household, educational attainment and employment status.
Cases	4894
Variable(s)	24
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: clust (Cluster number), nh (Household number)
Version	Version 1.0
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
Notes	The universe for this survey was ALL HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS 15 YEARS AND OLDER.

Variables

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

nh	Household number

fshid	Household identification

qgroup	Questionnaire group

s1q1	Person number in Section 1 of questionnaires

s1q2	Language used by respondent	LANGUAGE USED BY RESPONDENT

s1q3	Whether interpreter was used	WAS AN INTERPRETER USED?

s1q4	Sex of respondent	Is (NAME).....

s1q5	Whether person was a household member during GLSS5	WAS THIS PERSON A HOUSEHOLD MEMBER DURING THE GLSS 5?

s1q6	Person number of household member as recorded in GLSS5	RECORD THE ID NUMBER FROM THE GLSS 5

s1q7	Relationship of persons to household head	What is the relationship of (NAME) to head of household?

s1q8	Age of household members in completed years	What is (NAME's)age?

s1q9	Marital status of household members	What is (NAME's) present marital status?

s1q10	Whether respondent's spouse was living in the household	Does (NAME's) spouse live in the household?

s1q11	Person number of spouse	COPY THE ID CODE OF THE SPOUSE

s1q12	Whether respondent's father was living in the household	Does (NAME's) father live in this household?

s1q13	Person number of father	COPY ID CODE OF FATHER

s1q14	Whether respondent's mother was living in the household	Does (NAME's) mother live in this household?

s1q15	Person number of mother	COPY ID CODE OF MOTHER

s1q16	Whether person in household has ever attended school	Has (NAME)ever attended school?

s1q17	Highest grade completed by person living in the household	What was the highest grade completed?

s1q18	Whether person in household worked for pay, profit or family gain in last 7days	Did (NAME) do any work for pay, profit, family gain or did (NAME) produce anything for barter or home use during the last 7 days (including temporary absence from work)?

s1q19	How many months person in household had been absent during past 12 months?	For how many months during the past 12 months has (NAME) been away from this household?

s1q20	While absent, was the person a member of another household?	While absent, was (NAME) a member of another household? (including single person household).