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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4917951

Data Description

Data File: com-sec41-Health 1

Content	Section 4:Health
Cases	3948
Variable(s)	11
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: comid (Community identification number), cs4q1a (code of health professional)
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

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

comid	Community identification number

region	Region

cluster	Cluster number

comno	Community number

cs4q1a	code of health professional	Is there a ........... in this community?

cs4q1b	is there a ... in this community?	Is there a ..........in this community?

cs4q2	how far from this community is the nearest ...	How far from this community is the nearest ........?

cs4q3	where is the nearest ... located	Where is the nearest ............ located?

cs4q4a	how long does it take to get there-hours	How long does it take to get there? (Hours)

cs4q4b	how long does it take to get there-minutes	How long does it take to get there? (Minutes)