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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
Metadata
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Access policy
  • access_policy
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • 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
    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

    access_policy

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

    Contacts

    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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