Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Ghana, 2019

Reference ID

GHA_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)

Collection(s)

Afrobarometer

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Study website Interactive tools

Created on

Apr 28, 2021

Last modified

Apr 28, 2021

Page views

19789

Q95c. Occupation of respondent (Q95C)

Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9999

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1403

End: 1406

Width: 4

Range: 0 - 9999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

95c. What is your main occupation?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Never had a job	114	4.8%
1	Student	159	6.6%
2	Housewife / homemaker	36	1.5%
3	Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry	682	28.4%
4	Trader / hawker / vendor	528	22%
5	Retail / Shop	101	4.2%
6	Unskilled manual worker (e.g., cleaner, laborer, domestic help, unskilled manufacturing worker)	123	5.1%
7	Artisan or skilled manual worker (e.g., trades like electrician, mechanic, machinist or skilled manufacturing worker)	367	15.3%
8	Clerical or secretarial	20	0.8%
9	Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager	15	0.6%
10	Security services (police, army, private security)	28	1.2%
11	Mid-level professional (e.g., teacher, nurse, mid-level government officer)	147	6.1%
12	Upper-level professional (e.g., banker/finance, doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant, professor, senior-level government	35	1.5%
9995	Other	38	1.6%
9998	Refused	5	0.2%
9999	Don’t know	2	0.1%

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.

Interviewer instructions

Do not read options.
Code from responses.

Question post text

If unemployed, retired, or disabled, ask: "What was your last main occupation?"

Back to Catalog