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Living Standards Survey IV 1998-1999 - World Bank SHIP Harmonized Dataset

Ghana, 1998 - 1999
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Reference ID
GHA_1998_GLSS_v01_M_v01_A_SHIP
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Oct 30, 2012
Last modified
Sep 26, 2013
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Documentation
Questionnaires
Household Questionnaire
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Author(s) Ghana Statistical Service
Country Ghana
Language English
Description This questionnaire is an essential tool for using the 1998/99 GLSS data sets. In addition to the questions, it also contains codes and skip patterns.
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Ghana Living Standards Survey, Community Questionnaire
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Author(s) Ghana Statistical Service
Country Ghana
Language English
Description This document contains the community questionnaire used to collect community level information.
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Ghana Living Standards Survey, Price Questionnaire
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Author(s) Ghana Statistical Service
Country Ghana
Language English
Description This document collects information on 71 food items and 52 non-food items for use in calculating price adjustments to the expenditures aggregate.
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Technical documents
Africa SHIP Manual
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Author(s) World Bank
Language English
Description Technical manual to harmonize the data.
Table of contents Table of Contents
0. Chapter 0: Harmonized Household Surveys
1. Chapter 1: Module I - Harmonized Individual-Level File
1.1. Sample, Geography and Basic Household Identifier
1.2. Basic Demographic Characteristics
1.3. Literacy and Education
1.4. Health
1.5. Child Survival and Anthropometry for Children Aged 0-59 Months
2. Chapter 2: Module II - Harmonized Labor Variables
2.1. Identification, Individual, Educational and Training Variables Relevant to Labor
2.2. Labor-force: vocational training
2.3. Screening questions and primary employment
2.4. Secondary Employment
3. Chapter 3: Module III - Standardized Household-Level File
3.1. Sample, Geography and Basic Household Identifier
3.2. Household Head Characteristics
3.3. Housing and Utilities
3.4. Ownership of Durable and Non-Durable Goods
3.5. Household Expenditure
3.6. Household Remittances
3.7. Household Income Variables
4. Chapter 4: Module IV - Harmonized Expenditure File
4.1. Table 0: Household Composition and Weights Summary
4.2. Table 1: Food Expenditures
4.3. Table 2: Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco and Narcotics
4.4. Table 3: Clothing and Footwear
4.5. Table 4: Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas and Other Fuels
4.6. Table 5: Furnishings, Household Equipment and Routine Household Maintenance
4.7. Table 6: Health Care Expenditures
4.8. Table 7: Transport Expenditures
4.9. Table 8: Communication Expenditures
4.10. Table 9: Recreation and Culture Expenditures
4.11. Table 10: Education Expenditures
4.12. Table 11: Restaurants and Hotels
4.13. Table 12: Miscellaneous Goods and Services
4.14. Table 13: Regional Price Deflators
4.14.1. Sub-File
4.14.2. Final File
4.15. Table 14: Total Annual Household Expenditures
5. Chapter 5: Documentation and Computer Programs
6. Appendices
6.1 Appendix 1: Naming Convention
6.2 Appendix 2: Directory Organization
6.3 Appendix 3: Standard Excel Spreadsheet
6.4 Appendix 4: Issues In Household Expenditure Aggregation
7 Annexure
7.1 Annexure 1: Country Codes
7.2 Annexure 2: International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC)
References
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Other Materials
Stata program files (.do) for generating SHIP data
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Author(s) Saurabh Shome (primary producer) , Xiao Ye (supervisor)
Description This zip file contains Stata program files (.do) used to clean and harmonize the data.
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