People's Security Survey 2002

Ghana, 2002

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Reference ID

GHA_2002_PSS_v01_M

Producer(s)

International Labour Organisation

Metadata

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Identification

Survey ID number

GHA_2002_PSS_v01_M

Title

People's Security Survey 2002

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Ghana	GHA

Study type

People Security Surveys

Series Information

The People's Security Survey (PSS) is a household survey conducted by the International Labour Orgnaisation's (ILO) Social Security Department (SECSOC). The survey seeks to track the seven forms of work-related security comprising decent work, as well as highlighting people's aspirations and sense of social justice. Between 2000 and 2003, these surveys were conducted in 15 countries and in 2005 these were conducted in three countries: Namibia, Mozambique and Sri Lanka. Because the survey instrument was being developed during that time, and for budgetary reasons, the samples and survey design varied. In some countries, a national representative survey was conducted; in others, representative samples were drawn only from selected regions or from urban areas only.

Abstract

Insecurity is partly objective, partly subjective. To develop a strategy for reducing socio economic insecurity, it is necessary to consider both objective and subjective indicators of security. While it may be relatively easy to create objective indices of socio economic security, to create sound indicators that capture subjective elements of socio economic security, effort has to be made to find out what people in different parts of the world, from different social and demographic groups, perceive as the extent of their security or insecurity. It was with this purpose that IFPSES launched its PSS in mid 2000. The objective of the PSS is therefore to:
- Provide an improved understanding of perceived needs of people for policies and institutional support to provide them with basic security.
- Enable the creation of a Decent Work Index, which is crucial to ILO's work.
- Provide important information that can be used to flag security concerns of workers in ILO
- Reports and other documents.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Scope

Notes

The scope of Ghana PSS 2002 includes:

Household roster
Basic security
Labour market security
Employment security
Job security
Skill security
Work security
Income security
Representation security

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

3 regions. Rural and Urban.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
International Labour Organisation

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

3000 Individuals

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The PSS contain about 100 questions - some common to all respondents, and some to specific worker or social groups. A set of core questions are asked in all the PSS. In addition there are questions about specific issues that are important in the context of the country and/or the socio economic group that the PSS targets. The questionnaires are divided into sections by the seven types of securities that the IFP/SES monitors (except three Latin American surveys).

In addition, there are sections on:

Background characteristics - these refer to a respondent's age, marital status and household characteristics.
Basic security - Basic security is analysed in these surveys in terms of access to adequate food, health care, shelter and access to water.
Social justice - these set of questions explore people's sense of social justice since these perceptions are closely linked to the sense of anxiety and distributive justice that underlies insecurity.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2002	2002

Data Collectors

Name	Affiliation
Centre for Social Policy Studies	University of Ghana

Data Access

Access authority

Name	URL
International Labour Organisation (ILO)	http://www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/pss.pss_files

Access conditions

Public use files, accessible to all

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download

Example:

International Labour Organisation. Ghana People's Security Survey 2002. Ref. GHA_2002_PSS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/pss.pss_files on [date].

Special Permissions

Indicate if special permissions are required to access a resource	Special permissions description
yes	Access to documents and datasets are granted through ILO socio-economic security database website. (www.ilo.org/sesame )

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
Social Security Department	International Labour Organization	secsoc@ilo.org	http://www.ilo.org/secsoc
SES Database - Global	International Labour Organization	bonnet@ilo.org	http://www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/SESHELP.pss_desc
World Bank Microdata Library		microdata@worldabnk.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_WB_GHA_2002_PSS_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Development Economics Data Group	World Bank	Generation of the DDI

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 01 (August 2011)

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