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

May 26, 2015

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Main purpose for seeking a loan from a friend or family (s4q64)
File: Section 4 - Actions and attitudes towards use of financial services and products

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-6

Valid cases: 670
Invalid: 2647

Questions and instructions

Literal question

You said that you currently have money borrowed from a friend or family member. What was the main purpose for which you took out this loan? If more than one loan, refer to the most recent.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Purchase goods for household, travel, vehicle, celebrations	196	29.3%
2	Purchase, build or renovate a house	12	1.8%
3	Purchase goods for business	123	18.4%
4	To pay unforseen costs	144	21.5%
5	Agriculture or livestock	83	12.4%
6	Other	112	16.7%

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.