Ghana Living Standards Survey 5+ 2008

Ghana, 2008

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Reference ID

GHA_2008_MCC-LSS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research

Collection(s)

Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

Metadata

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Jun 01, 2015

Last modified

Jun 01, 2015

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Identification

Survey ID number

GHA_2008_MCC-LSS_v01_M

Title

Ghana Living Standards Survey 5+ 2008

Country/Economy

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

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
Millennium Challenge Corporation

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.

Survey instrument

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 collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2008	2008

Data Collectors

Name	Affiliation
Ghana Statistical Service	Government of Ghana

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.

Access policy

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

Data Access

Citation requirements

"Report of the Baseline Survey (GLSS 5+)." Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), 2009.

Contacts

Name	Email
Monitoring & Evaluation Division of the Millennium Challenge Corporation	impact-eval@mcc.gov

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_GHA_2008_MCC-LSS_v01_M

Producers

Name	Role
Millennium Challenge Corporation	Metadata Producer

Date of Metadata Production

2014-03-05

Metadata version

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.

Version notes

The Compact targeted households in the 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).

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