Ghana Living Standards Survey 5+ 2008

Ghana, 2008

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GHA_2008_MCC-LSS_v01_M

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Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research

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Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

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response b (s7nq3b)

Data file: sec7n1

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Valid: 9856

Invalid: 282015

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 16

End: 17

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 23

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	sale of livestock	269	2.7%
2	sale of land	33	0.3%
3	sale of other property	852	8.6%
4	sent children to live with friends	95	1%
5	withdrew children from school	38	0.4%
6	engaged in additinal income activity	700	7.1%
7	received assitance from friends/family	1280	13%
8	borrowed from friends/family	530	5.4%
9	took a loan from a financial institution	42	0.4%
10	members migrated for work	95	1%
11	credited purchases	408	4.1%
12	delayed payment obligations	361	3.7%
13	sold harvest harvest in advance	254	2.6%
14	reduced food consumption	1160	11.8%
15	reduced non food consumption	1213	12.3%
16	relied on savings	333	3.4%
17	received assistance from ngo	27	0.3%
18	received assistance from da	4	0%
19	took advanced payment from employer	6	0.1%
20	received assistance from central govt	21	0.2%
21	was covered by insurance policy	1	0%
22	did nothing	2104	21.3%
23	other	30	0.3%
Sysmiss		282015

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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