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Ghana Living Standards Survey 5+ 2008

Ghana, 2008
Central
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research
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Identification

Survey ID Number
GHA_2008_MCC-LSS_v01_M
Title
Ghana Living Standards Survey 5+ 2008
Country
Name Country code
Ghana GHA
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Households

Version

Version Description
Anonymized dataset for public distribution

Scope

Keywords
Keyword
Ghana
Household survey

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
23 districts in the Northern Agriculture Zone (Northern Region), the Afram Basin Zone (Ashanti and Eastern regions), and the Southern Horticultural Belt (South-East Coastal Plains).
Universe
Households in 23 districts in the Northern Agriculture Zone (Northern Region), the Afram Basin Zone (Ashanti and Eastern regions), and the Southern Horticultural Belt (South-East Coastal Plains).

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research University of Ghana
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation
Millennium Challenge Corporation MCC

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
A two-stage sample design was used for the survey. The first stage involved selecting sample points or clusters from an updated master sampling frame constructed from the 2000 Ghana Population and Housing Census in the second half of 2007. A total of 621 clusters (census enumeration areas) were selected from the master sampling frame. The clusters were selected using systematic sampling with probability proportional to size. A complete household listing second stage selection of households.

The second stage of selection involved the systematic sampling of 15 of the households listed in each cluster. The primary objectives of the second stage of selection were to ensure adequate numbers of completed individual interviews to provide estimates for key indicators with acceptable precision at the district level. Other sampling objectives were to facilitate manageable interviewer workload within each sample area and to reduce the effects of intra-class correlation within a sample area on the variance of the survey estimates.
Deviations from the Sample Design
The survey used the district boundary lines existing in 2008.
Weighting
Since the design is not self-weighting, household sample weights were computed and applied for the estimation of the survey results. This was to facilitate estimation of the true contribution of each selected cluster in the sample.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2008 2008
Supervision
Twenty-five teams were involved in the data collection, 23 of which were actually working in each cycle of the survey. Each of the teams was made up of a Supervisor, a Senior Interviewer, four Interviewers and a Driver. A number of supervisory teams from ISSER and GSS visited the field at regular intervals to assess progress of work and reshaped the direction of the survey.
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
Ghana Statistical Service GSS Government of Ghana

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
In-depth data were collected on the following key elements of socio-economic life using two sets of questionnaires, namely a household questionnaire and a community questionnaire, in addition to the use of geographic position system units (GPS) to measure coordinates representing location of households, community facilities and farm sizes:

• Demographic Characteristics
• Education and Skills / Training
• Health and Fertility Behavior
• Employment and Time Use
• Housing and Housing Conditions
• Land Ownership and Land Transactions
• Agriculture
• Prices of Consumer Items
• Non-farm Household Enterprises; and
• Household Income, Consumption and Expenditure

Data Processing

Other Processing
The processing of the survey data began shortly after the fieldwork commenced. Completed questionnaires were returned periodically from the field to the GSS office in Accra, where they were edited by office editors and entered by data entry personnel who were specially trained for this task. Data were entered using CSPro version 3.3. All data were entered twice (100 percent verification). The concurrent processing of the data was to serve as a distinct advantage for data quality, because GSS could have had the opportunity to advise field teams of problems detected during data entry. However, administrative and logistical challenges prevented the team from making full use of this opportunity and it eventually led to several weeks of unanticipated post-entry editing.

Access policy

Contacts
Name Email
Monitoring & Evaluation Division of the Millennium Challenge Corporation impact-eval@mcc.gov
Citation requirements
"Report of the Baseline Survey (GLSS 5+)." Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), 2009.
Location of Data Collection
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Archive where study is originally stored
Millennium Challenge Corporation
http://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/81
Cost: None

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_GHA_2008_MCC-LSS_v01_M
Producers
Name Abbreviation Role
Millennium Challenge Corporation MCC Metadata Producer
Date of Metadata Production
2014-03-05
DDI Document version
Version 1.0 (March 2014). This is the first version of the document.
Version 2.0 (April 2015). Edited version based on Version 01 (DDI-MCC-GHA-ISSER-2009-v01) that was done by Millennium Challenge Corporation.