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: sec9c-Food and Non Food Expenses

Content	Food and non food expenses, and availability of selected consumer items
Cases	4195
Variable(s)	10
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), availcd (Available item code)
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

availcd	Available item code	Availability of selected consumer items

s9cq1	Found items available when tried to purchase them	In the past 12 months, have you found these items available when you tried to purchase them?

s9cq2	How does availability compare with preceeding year	How does the availability over the past 12 months compare with the availability of the preceeding year?

weight	weight