Survey ID Number
GHA_1984_PHC_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Title
Population and Housing Census 1984 - IPUMS Subset
Unit of Analysis
UNITS IDENTIFIED:
- Dwellings: No
- Vacant units: No
- Households: Yes
- Individuals: Yes
- Group quarters: Yes
UNIT DESCRIPTIONS:
- Dwellings: A house or compound is a structurally separate and independent place of abode. An enclosure may be considered as separate if it is surrounded by walls, fences, etc. so that a person or group of persons can isolate themselves from other persons in the community for the purpose of sleeping, preparing and taking their meals, or protecting themselves from hazards of climate such as storms and the sun. Any shelter used as living quarters at the time of the census, e.g. a hut or a group of huts, should be counted as a house or compound.
- Households: A person or a group of persons who live together in the same house or compound, share the same house-keeping arrangements and are catered for as one unit.
- Group quarters: The following are institutions: (a) Educational institutions, e.g., boarding schools, universities, training colleges, blind schools, seminaries, convents, children's homes, orphanages, nurseries, hostels (YWCA), etc.; (b) Hospitals, including mental hospitals, maternity homes, divine healers' and herbalists' establishments, rehabilitation centres and similar institutions for the physically and mentally handicapped, and convalescent homes; (c) Prisons, including borstal institutions, remand homes and industrial schools; (d) Service barracks, including army camps, military academies, police training schools and colleges.
- Special populations: The floating population is comprised of the following: (a) Persons who on census night were travelling in lorries, trains or on foot and therefore did not sleep in any house or compound on that night, e.g. cattle drivers; (b) Persons who spent census night in hotels, rest houses, transit quarters, road camps and labour transit camps; (c) Persons at airports, on ships, ferries, at international border stations; (d) Soldiers on field training; (e) Fishermen and other persons who were at sea in Ghana's territorial waters on census night; (f) All persons who slept in lorry parks, markets, in front of stores and offices, public bathrooms, petrol filling stations, railway stations, verandahs, pavements and all such places which are not houses or compounds; (g) Watchmen; (h) Beggars and vagrants (mad or otherwise).