STEP Skills Measurement Household Survey 2013 (Wave 2)

Ghana, 2013

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Reference ID

GHA_2013_STEP-HH_v02_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/6m7b-0k59

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World Bank

Collection(s)

The STEP Skills Measurement Program

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Jun 30, 2014

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Why did you stop working? (m4a_q24)

Data file: STEP Ghana_working

Overview

Valid: 411

Invalid: 2576

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1229

End: 1230

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Module 4: Employment, Part A: Labor Force Participation

24) What was the main reason you stopped working?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	You were fired	12	2.9%
2	Enterprise you worked for closed	15	3.6%
3	Your own business/economic activity failed	34	8.3%
4	Low wage/bad working conditions	63	15.3%
5	You moved to another area	19	4.6%
6	End of contract/end of work/business slowdown	34	8.3%
7	Family, Health, Personal reasons	131	31.9%
8	Employer reduced your work hours	1	0.2%
9	To continue education	90	21.9%
10	Retired	12	2.9%
11	Other, specify	0	0%
Sysmiss		2576

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.

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