Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8
Ghana, 2019
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Reference ID
GHA_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M
Producer(s)
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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Oct 14, 2021
Last modified
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- gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Q95c. Occupation of respondent (Q95C)
Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
2400
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
9999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1403
End:
1406
Width:
4
Range:
0 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
95c. What is your main occupation?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Never had a job | 114 |
4.8%
|
| 1 | Student | 159 |
6.6%
|
| 2 | Housewife / homemaker | 36 |
1.5%
|
| 3 | Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry | 682 |
28.4%
|
| 4 | Trader / hawker / vendor | 528 |
22%
|
| 5 | Retail / Shop | 101 |
4.2%
|
| 6 | Unskilled manual worker (e.g., cleaner, laborer, domestic help, unskilled manufacturing worker) | 123 |
5.1%
|
| 7 | Artisan or skilled manual worker (e.g., trades like electrician, mechanic, machinist or skilled manufacturing worker) | 367 |
15.3%
|
| 8 | Clerical or secretarial | 20 |
0.8%
|
| 9 | Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager | 15 |
0.6%
|
| 10 | Security services (police, army, private security) | 28 |
1.2%
|
| 11 | Mid-level professional (e.g., teacher, nurse, mid-level government officer) | 147 |
6.1%
|
| 12 | Upper-level professional (e.g., banker/finance, doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant, professor, senior-level government | 35 |
1.5%
|
| 9995 | Other | 38 |
1.6%
|
| 9998 | Refused | 5 |
0.2%
|
| 9999 | Don’t know | 2 |
0.1%
|
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.
Interviewer instructions
Do not read options.
Code from responses.
Code from responses.
Question post text
If unemployed, retired, or disabled, ask: "What was your last main occupation?"