Ghana - Ghana Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey - 2003

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-CWIQ II -2003-v2.1

Year

2003

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana statistical service - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Logistical assistance
The World Bank - - Financial and technical assistance

Created on

Feb 20, 2009

Last modified

Mar 14, 2016

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Main source of support in times of need (j10)
File: Household data - CWIQ 2003

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-9

Valid cases: 48979 (4090448.9)
Invalid: 24 (2029)
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9

Questions and instructions

Universe

All household included in the survey.

Literal question

In times of great financial difficulty, because of ill health ,
a death or loss of job, who can your household turn to
for help ?

Source of information

Head of household or Household member

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Family/relatives/children/parents	27315	2287699	55.9%
2	Friends/neighbours	3726	295720	7.2%
3	Groups/Associations	1130	111373	2.7%
4	Government	804	59785	1.5%
5	Bank/formal credit societies	2244	196943	4.8%
6	Insurance companies	114	12239	0.3%
7	Money lenders/informal credit	1643	130817	3.2%
8	No one you can count on	11822	980324	24.0%
9	Other	181	15548	0.4%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.