Ghana - Ghana Living Standards Survey 6 (With a Labour Force Module) 2012-2013, Round Six

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-GLSS6-2012-v1.0

Year

2012 - 2013

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service - Government of Ghana

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GOG - Funding
UK Department For International Development - UK-DIFID - Funding
International Labour Organaisation - ILO - Funding
United Nations Development Programme - UNDP - Funding
United Nations Children Educ

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Sep 12, 2014

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Mar 30, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: comsec1

Content	The file contains data related to Section 1 of the Community Questionnaire. It contains questions on demographic characteristics of the community.
Cases	1
Variable(s)	17
Version	Version 1.0 (September, 2014)
Producer	Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Missing Data	Missing data are asterisks (*)
Processing Checks	Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing, including: a) Office editing and coding by field editors b) Using range checks during data capture c) Structure , range and completeness checks d) Secondary editing using batch editing rules developed in CSPro 4.1 e) Consistency check in all sections using STATA

Variables

Name	Label	Question
Region	Region	Region

Clust	Cluster number	Cluster number

Eatype	Eatype	EA type

Communitynumber	Communitynumber	Community number

Cs1q1	Community population	Number of people living in the community

Cs1q2	Years community existed	For how many years has this community existed?

Cs1q3a	Ethnic group ranked 1st	What are the principal ethnic groups represented in this community?

Cs1q3b	Ethnic group ranked 2nd	What are the principal ethnic groups represented in this community?

Cs1q3c	Ethnic group ranked 3rd	What are the principal ethnic groups represented in this community?

Cs1q3d	Ethnic group ranked 4th	What are the principal ethnic groups represented in this community?

Cs1q3o	Other ethnic group	What are the other ethnic groups represented in this community?

Cs1q4a	Religion ranked 1st	What are the major religions practiced by the residents of this community?

Cs1q4b	Religion ranked 2nd	What are the major religions practiced by the residents of this community?

Cs1q4c	Religion ranked 3rd	What are the major religions practiced by the residents of this community?

Cs1q4d	Religion ranked 4th	What are the major religions practiced by the residents of this community?

Cs1q4o	Other religion	What are the other religions practiced by the residents of this community?

Cs1q5	People moved to/from community	For the past ten years (since 2002/2003), have more people moved to your community, or have there been more people that moved away?