Afrobarometer Survey 2018, Round 7
Ghana, 2018
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Reference ID
GHA_2018_AFB-R7_v01_M
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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)
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Q96b. Occupation of head of household (Q96B)
Data file: gha_r7_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
2400
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1152
End:
1153
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
If respondent is not the head of household, i.e. if the response to 96A was NOT 1=You [respondent] or 99=Don’t know, ask:
Literal question
96b. What is the main occupation of the head of the household? [If unemployed, retired or disabled, ask:] What was his/her last main occupation?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Never had a job | 23 |
1%
|
| 1 | Student | 11 |
0.5%
|
| 2 | Housewife / homemaker | 7 |
0.3%
|
| 3 | Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry | 497 |
20.7%
|
| 4 | Trader / hawker / vendor | 170 |
7.1%
|
| 5 | Retail / Shop | 34 |
1.4%
|
| 6 | Unskilled manual worker | 82 |
3.4%
|
| 7 | Artisan or skilled manual worker | 168 |
7%
|
| 8 | Clerical or secretarial | 1 |
0%
|
| 9 | Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager | 17 |
0.7%
|
| 10 | Security services | 27 |
1.1%
|
| 11 | Mid-level professional | 102 |
4.3%
|
| 12 | Upper-level professional | 33 |
1.4%
|
| 95 | Other | 39 |
1.6%
|
| 97 | Not applicable (respondent is head of household) | 1163 |
48.5%
|
| 98 | Refused | 0 |
0%
|
| 99 | Don’t know | 26 |
1.1%
|
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.