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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Marital Status (b6)
File: Individual data - CWIQ 2003

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-7

Valid cases: 210129 (16738720.5)
Invalid: 41 (2806.4)
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 7

Questions and instructions

Universe

All household members

Literal question

What is [NAME]'s marital status?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases	Weighted
1	Never married	125674	10006385	59.8%
2	Loose/informal union	9155	789921	4.7%
3	Married (monogamous)	49175	4027148	24.1%
4	Married (polygamous)	11501	721928	4.3%
5	Divorced	4786	403775	2.4%
6	Separated	2445	205229	1.2%
7	Widowed	7393	584334	3.5%

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.