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: sec10g1-Other Expenditure-First Enterprise

Cases	81244
Variable(s)	17
Structure:	Type: relational Keys: hhid (Household Identification number), pid (Person number), expcd1 (1st Ent expenditure item code)
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

Name	Label	Question
clust	Cluster number

hhid	Household Identification number

region	REGION

ez	Ecological zone

nh	Household Number

pid	Person number

entno	first enterprise	First enterprise

s10gq1	Has first enterprise been operating in last 2wks?	Has the enterprise been operating during the last two weeks?

expcd1	1st Ent expenditure item code	Expenditure Items

s10gq2	1st Ent -spent anything on item in past 12mths?	During the past 12 months has the enterprise spent anything on ...?

s10gq3	1st Ent-pay for item at least once a week?	Do you pay for ... at least once a week?

s10gq4	1st Ent-number of times was item paid for in past 12mths	How many times was ... paid for during the past 12 months?

s10gq5	1st Ent-amount spent on item in the past 12mths	How much did you spend on ... during the past 12 months?

s10gq6	1st Ent-amount spent on item in past 3mths	How much did you spend on ... during the past 3 months?

s10gq7	1st Ent-amount spent on item in last 2 wks	How much did you spend on ... during the last 2 weeks?

s10gq8	1st Ent-was item available when need to purchase it in the p	During the past 12 months, was ... available when you needed/wished to purchase it?

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