Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8

Ghana, 2019

Reference ID

GHA_2019_AFB-R8_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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Q95b. Required to pay an income tax (Q95B)

Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1401

End: 1402

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If respondent answered “No (not looking)”, “No (looking)”, or 9=DK to Q95A, select 7=Not applicalbe for this question and continue to Q95C (tablet will do an automatic skip). Otherwise ask:

Literal question

If you have paid employment, that is, regular employment for which you receive something like an hourly wage or a regular salary, are you required to pay an income tax, that is, a tax deducted from your wages by your employer?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	No, not required to pay	268	11.2%
1	Yes,required to pay	994	41.4%
7	Not applicable	1088	45.3%
8	Refused	0	0%
9	Don’t know	50	2.1%

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.

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