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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4918016

Data Description

Data File: sec9b-Non Food Expenses (frequently purchased items)

Content	Household Expenditure: Food expenses (Frequently purchased items)
Cases	49925
Variable(s)	18
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), freqcd (Frequently purchased item)
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	Persons mainly responsible for household purchases

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

hhid	Household Identification number

region	Region

urbrur	Urban/rural

ez	Ecological Zone

nh	Household number

freqcd	Frequently purchased item	Frequently purchased item code

s9bq1	Amount spent by second visit	How much was spent on ... since my first visit? (2ND VISIT)

s9bq2	Amount spent by third visit	How much was spent on ... since my last visit? (3RD VISIT)

s9bq3	Amount spent by fourth visit	How much was spent on ... since my last visit? (4TH VISIT)

s9bq4	Amount spent by fifth visit	How much was spent on ... since my last visit? (5TH VISIT)

s9bq5	Amount spent by sixth visit	How much was spent on ... since my last visit? (6TH VISIT)

s9bq6	Amount spent by seventh visit	How much was spent on ... since my last visit? (7TH VISIT)

s9bq7	Amount spent by eight visit	How much was spent on ... since my last visit? (8TH VISIT)

s9bq8	Amount spent by ninth visit	How much was spent on ... since my last visit? (9TH VISIT)

s9bq9	Amount spent by tenth visit	How much was spent on ... since my last visit? (10TH VISIT)

s9bq10	Amount spent by eleventh visit	How much was spent on ... since my last visit? (11TH VISIT)

weight	weight