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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First guarantee required for any other bank loan taken in past 12 months (s4q30a)
File: Section 4 - Actions and attitudes towards use of financial services and products

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-9

Valid cases: 39
Invalid: 3278

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What guarantee were you required to undertake or give to obtain this loan?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Provide co-signer	7	17.9%
2	Provide things that cannot be moved, such as house or land	1	2.6%
3	Provide things that can be moved, such as livestocks, jewell	2	5.1%
4	Promise to give a service such as labour	2	5.1%
5	Sign insurance to cover loan amount	1	2.6%
6	Keep a minimum amount of money in the institution	7	17.9%
7	Provide authorisation for deduction from payroll	11	28.2%
8	Nothing	6	15.4%
9	Other	2	5.1%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.