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

Metadata

Created on

Dec 15, 2008

Last modified

Mar 21, 2016

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Data Description

Data File: sec2b-Educational Career

Content	Educational career
Cases	602
Variable(s)	17
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: pid (Person number), hhid (Household Identification 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
Notes	The universe for this section is all household members 12 years and older

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

region	Region

urbrur	Urban/rural

ez	Ecological zone

nh	Household number

pid	Person number	Person ID

s2bq1	Ever attended tech. school	Has Name ever attended technical and/or vocational/ computer school?

s2bq2	Course years completed	How many course years did Name complete?

s2bq3	Highest cert. obtained	What was the highest certificate Name obtained?

s2bq4	School public or private	Was the technical/computer/vocational school Name attended public or private?

s2bq5	Tertiary educ institution?	Has Name ever attended a tertiary educational institution (eg. university, polytechnic, etc)?

s2bq6	Years attended	How many years did Name attend?

s2bq7	Last institution attended	What was the last institution attended?

s2bq8	Highest qualification achieved	What was the highest qualification Name achieved?

s2bq9	Tertiary inst. public or private	Was the tertiary institution public or private?

hhid	Household Identification number

weight	weight