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

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Dec 15, 2008

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Mar 21, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: sec10a-Basic Characteristics of Non Farm Enterprises

Cases	5057
Variable(s)	29
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), pid (Person number), entno (Enterprise 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

hhid	Household Identification number

region	REGION

ez	EZ

nh	Household Number

pid	Person number

s10aq1	Number of Enterprises	Write total number of non-farm enterprises from section 6 Q.9

entno	Enterprise number	Enterprise number

s10aq3	ID of person responsible for enterprise	ID of Person responsible

s10aq4	ID of person interviewed	ID of Person interviewed

s10aq5	Principal activity of enterprise (ISIC)	What is the principal activity of this enterprise?

s10aq6	Secondary activity of enterprise (ISIC)	What is the main secondary activity of the enterprise?

s10aq7a	Years of operation of enterprise	How long has this enterprise been actively operating? Years

s10aq7b	Months of operation of enterprise	How long has this enterprise been actively operating? Months

s10aq8	Months of operation in past 12mths	How many months during the past 12 months did the enterprise operate? (IF LESS THAN A MONTH RECORD 0)

s10aq9	Does income belong entirely to person responsible?	Does the income of this enterprise belong entirely to you?

s10aq10	What % of income comes to person responsible?	What percentage of the income of this enterprise comes to you?

s10aq11	Is this enterprise registered with government agency?	Is this enterprise registered with any government agency?

s10aq12	Serious difficulty in establishing this enterprise	What was the most serious difficulty in establishing this enterprise?

s10aq13	Main source of capital	What was the main source of capital in setting up this enterprise?

s10aq14	Nature of capital	What is the nature of this capital?

s10aq15	Tried to get credit from financial agencies in past 12mths?	During the past 12 months, has this enterprise tried to get credit from banks and other financial agencies?

s10aq16	Main source of credit used in past 12mths	During the past 12 months, what has been the main source of credit used by this enterprise?

s10aq17	How much altogether has this enterprise borrowed in past 12m	During the past 12 months, how much altogether has this enterprise borrowed? (NEW LOANS)

s10aq18	How much of loans have been repaid in past 12mths?	During the past 12 months, how much of the total loans has this enterprise repaid? (INCLUDE THE VALUE OF ANY IN-KIND PAYMENTS)

loc2	Locality (2)

loc5	Locality (5)

loc7	Locality (7)

weight	Sample weight for glss4 (=1 for glss3)