Ghana - Ghana Living Standard Survey 5: 2005, With Non-Farm Household Enterprise Module

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-GLSS-2005-v2.0

Year

2005 - 2006

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GOG - Funding
World Bank - WB - Support
European Union - EU - Support

Metadata

Created on

Dec 15, 2008

Last modified

Mar 21, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: sec4g-Employment Search

Content	Employment: Employment search in the past 12 months
Cases	432
Variable(s)	15
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), pid (Person number)
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 section is all household members 12 years and older and question 1 in section E = 2

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

hhid	Household Identification number

region	Region

urbrur	Urban/rural

ez	Ecological zone

nh	Household number

pid	Person number	Person ID

s4gq1	Number of weeks without work	During the past 12 months, for how many weeks altogether was (Name) without any work?

s4gq2	Number of weeks available	During the past 12 months, how many weeks was (Name) availale for work?

s4gq3	Number of weeks active for work	During the past 12 months, how many weeks did (Name) actively look for work?

s4gq4	Do to find work	What did (Name) do in the past 12 months to find work? (WRITE MOST IMPORTANT ONLY)

s4gq5	Why not look for work	Why did (Name) not look for work throughout the period he/she was available for work? (WRITE MOST IMPORTANT ONLY)

s4gq6	Type of work	What type of work did (Name) want when he/she was available or looking for work?

s4gq7	Doing when not working	What was (Name) doing when not working and not available to work?

weight	weight