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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Most important problem to be fixed (j11a)
File: Household data - CWIQ 2003

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-97

Valid cases: 48977 (4090481.2)
Invalid: 26 (1996.8)
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 97

Questions and instructions

Universe

All household included in the survey.

Literal question

People have different opinions about the most important
problems that need to be fixed to make life better. In your
opinion what is the BIGGEST problem facing your
household? What is the SECOND biggest problem? What is
the THIRD biggest problem

Source of information

Head of household or Household member

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Unemployment/no jobs	7763	729763	17.9%
2	Poverty	9466	731468	17.9%
3	Inflation	1121	107420	2.6%
4	Lack of credit/finance	12638	1052625	25.8%
5	Taxes	195	17665	0.4%
6	Lack/poor quality of land	589	40218	1.0%
7	Illness/epidemic	1076	87065	2.1%
8	Lack of health care	1551	123275	3.0%
9	Drinking water	4664	363964	8.9%
10	Sanitation/waste disposal	1131	103496	2.5%
11	Education	2471	201745	4.9%
12	Domestic violence	42	3456	0.1%
13	Social isolation	98	8586	0.2%
14	Fighting between groups	29	2082	0.1%
15	Drunkenness/drug abuse	37	2705	0.1%
16	Housing	2303	200526	4.9%
17	Roads and bridges	2029	152010	3.7%
18	Transportation system	305	30047	0.7%
19	Corruption	74	8773	0.2%
20	Political instability	24	2294	0.1%
21	Politicians	13	1647	0.0%
22	Crime and theft	71	7163	0.2%
23	Violence/security/safety	29	2720	0.1%
24	Frequent interruption of electricity	296	35257	0.9%
25	Negative cultural practices	24	2007	0.0%
26	Other	880	67338	1.6%

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.