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: sec12b-Assets and Durable Goods

Content	Credit, assets and savings: Assets and durable consumer goods
Cases	11626
Variable(s)	23
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), assetcd (Asset or consumer goods)
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 is all households

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

hhid	Household Identification number

region	Region

urbrur	Urban/rural

ez	Ecological Zone

nh	Household number

assetcd	Asset or consumer goods	Asset code

s12bq1a	First item owned	Does any member of the household own ..........(First item).?

s12bq1b	Second item owned	Does any member of the household own ........... (Second item)?

s12bq1c	Third item owned	Does any member of the household own......... (Third item)?

s12bq2a	Number of years obtained 1	How long ago was ... obtained? First Item

s12bq2b	Number of years obtained 2	How long ago was.... obtained? Second Item

s12bq2c	Number of years obtained 3	How long ago was.... Obtained? Third Item

s12bq3a1	Price of first item	What was its purchase price? (IF GIFT PUT ZERO) First item?

s12bq3a2	Unit of first item	Currency code of first item

s12bq3b1	Price of second item	What was its purchase price? (IF GIFT PUT ZERO) Second item?

s12bq3b2	Unit of second item	Currency code of second item

s12bq3c1	Price of third item	What was its purchase price? (IF GIFT PUT ZERO) Third item?

s12bq3c2	Unit of third item	Currency code of third item

s12bq4a	Amount item 1 could be sold	How much could you sell it now in cedis? (First item)

s12bq4b	Amount item 2 could be sold	How much could you sell it now in cedis? (Second item)

s12bq4c	Amount item 3 could be sold	How much could you sell it now in cedis? (third item)

weight	weight