Survey of Public Servants 2018
Ghana, 2018
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GHA_2018_PESBR_v01_M
Survey of Public Servants 2018
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Ghana | GHA |
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To better understand these issues and identify ideas for reform, a joint research team composed of Civil Servants and academic research staff conducted interviews with over 2,762 senior-level officers in 45 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies in Ghana’s Civil Service. In 2018, the research team went back to the same MDAs and collaborated with new organizations and departments created since 2015, interviewing 3,003 officials in 58 ministries and departments.
In order to rigorously measure the quality of management practices, the Ghana Civil Servants Survey adapted the framework of the World Management Survey, an internationally recognized tool for benchmarking management quality, to measure management in the Civil Service. The survey asked questions on six topics of strategic importance to the civil service: the setting of targets, monitoring performance, the definition of roles, flexibility in implementation, the provision of incentives, and effective staffing practice.
Aggregate data [agg]
Public officials
Version
Version 01: Anonymized and aggregated dataset for public distribution
Scope
The study covered the following topics:
- Management practices
- Job characteristics, tasks and responsibilities
- Ease of doing work
- Work history and individual characteristics
- Recruitment, promotion, and additional characteristics
- Corruption in the service
- Opportunity for open feedback on the service
Coverage
45 MDAs targeted in 2015 and new organizations and departments created between 2015 and 2018 in 58 ministries and departments.
45 MDAs targeted in 2015 and new organizations and departments created between 2015 and 2018 in 58 ministries and departments.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Daniel Oliver Rogger | The World Bank |
Sampling
In 2015, a joint research team composed of Civil Servants and academic research staff conducted interviews with over 2,762 senior-level officers in 45 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies in Ghana’s Civil Service. In 2018, the research team went back to the same MDAs and collaborated with new organizations and departments created since 2015, interviewing 3,003 officials in 58 ministries and departments. All senior officials were eligible to be interviewed.
Response rate was 92%.
Survey instrument
The survey questionnaire comprises following modules: 1- Cover page, 2- Management practices, 3- Job characteristics, tasks and responsibilities, 4- Ease of doing work, 5- Work history and individual characteristics, 6- Recruitment, promotion, and additional characteristics, 7- Corruption in the service, 8- Opportunity for open feedback on the service, and 9- Post-interview questions.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2018-06-19 | 2018-10-30 |
- Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
Face-to-face individual surveys conducted by teams of civil servants delegated by OHCS
Data Access
The use of the datasets must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name);
- the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation;
- the survey reference number;
- the source and date of download (for datasets disseminated online).
Disclaimer and copyrights
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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Oliver Rogger | The World Bank | drogger@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_GHA_2018_PESBR_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2022-05-20
Metadata version
Version 01 (May 2022)