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

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Created on

Dec 15, 2008

Last modified

Mar 21, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: com-sec32-Education 2

Content	Section 3:Education
Cases	396
Variable(s)	23
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: comid (Community identification 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

Variables

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

comid	Community identification number

region	Region

cluster	Cluster number

comno	Community number

cs3q12a	three main reasons why some children are not in school-1st	What are the three main reasons why some children in this community are not attending primary school? (First )

cs3q12b	three main reasons why some children are not in school-2nd	What are the three main reasons why some children in this community are not attending primary school? (Second )

cs3q12c	three main reasons why some children are not in school-3rd	What are the three main reasons why some children in this community are not attending primary school? (Third )

cs3q13	does community have JSS	Does this community have a junior secondary school?

cs3q14	how far is the nearest JSS	How far away is the nearest junior secondary school from this community?

cs3q16a	is it public or private - school 1	Is it public or private? (School 1)

cs3q16b	is it public or private - school 2	Is it public or private? (School 2)

cs3q16c	is it public or private - school 3	Is it public or private? (School 3

cs3q17a	is it boys only, girls only or mixed-school 1	Is it boys only, girls only, or mixed? (School 1)

cs3q17b	is it boys only, girls only or mixed-school 2	Is it boys only, girls only, or mixed? (School 2)

cs3q17c	is it boys only, girls only or mixed-school 3	Is it boys only, girls only, or mixed? (School 3)

cs3q18a	how many forms are there- school 1	How many forms are there? (School 1)

cs3q18b	how many forms are there- school 2	How many forms are there? (School 2)

cs3q18c	how many forms are there- school 3	How many forms are there? (School 2)

cs3q20a	what proportion of JSS students are enrolled - girls	What proportion of the students of junior secondary school going age (12-15 years) are enrolled? That is, is it (Girls)

cs3q20b	what proportion of JSS students are enrolled - boys	What proportion of the students of junior secondary school going age (12-15 years) are enrolled? That is, is it (Boys)

cs3q21	does this community have a senior/ technical school?	Does this community have a senior secondary or technical/vocational/commerical school?

cs3q22	how far is the nearest senior secondary school?	How far away is the nearest senior secondary or technical school from this community?