Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008

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Reference ID

GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Sep 19, 2018

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Respondent worked recently (B_WKWORKLASTYR)

Data file: GHA2008-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 549

End: 550

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

810. Have you done any work in the last 12 months?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 818)

Categories

Value	Category
00	No
10	Yes
11	Worked in the past year
12	Currently working
13	Has a job, but on leave last 7 days
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

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.

Description

Definition

WKWORKLASTYR (V731) indicates whether the respondent worked recently (i.e., was currently working, was on leave from a job in the past 7 days, or worked in the past year).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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