Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998
Round 3
Ghana, 1998
Get Microdata
Reference ID
GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Collections
Metadata
Created on
Feb 20, 2009
Last modified
Mar 12, 2016
Page views
2640284
Downloads
62589
Respondent's occupation (mv716)
Data file: MREC71
Overview
Valid:
1546
Invalid:
0
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Continuous
Decimal:
0
Width:
3
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Not working | 268 |
17.3%
|
| 1 | Physical scientists and rel. techn. | 0 |
0%
|
| 2 | Architects | 6 |
0.4%
|
| 3 | Engineers and related techn. | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 4 | Aircraft and ship officers | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 5 | Life scientists and rel. tech. | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 6 | Medical, dental, veterinary and rel. workers | 7 |
0.5%
|
| 7 | Professional nurses | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 8 | Statisticians, mathematicians, system anal. and rel. workers | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Economists | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Accountants | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 12 | Jurists (eg. lawyers, judges) | 0 |
0%
|
| 13 | Teachers | 54 |
3.5%
|
| 14 | Workers in religion | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 15 | Authors, journalists and rel. workers | 0 |
0%
|
| 16 | Sculptors, painters, photographers and rel. creative art. | 0 |
0%
|
| 17 | Composers and performing artists | 0 |
0%
|
| 18 | Athletes, sportsmen and rel. workers | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | Professional, technical & rel. workers not elsewhere class. | 15 |
1%
|
| 20 | Legislative officers and government workers | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | Managers (excluding farm managers) | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 30 | Clerical and related workers | 9 |
0.6%
|
| 31 | Government executive officials | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 32 | Stenographers, typists and data entry operators | 0 |
0%
|
| 33 | Book-keepers, cashiers and related workers | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 34 | Computer machine operators | 0 |
0%
|
| 35 | Transport and communications supervisors | 0 |
0%
|
| 36 | Transport conductors | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 37 | Mail distribution clerks | 0 |
0%
|
| 38 | Telephone and telegraph operators | 0 |
0%
|
| 39 | Clerical and related workers not elsewhere class. | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 40 | Managers (wholesale and retail trade) | 0 |
0%
|
| 41 | Working proprietors (wholesale and retail trade) | 43 |
2.8%
|
| 42 | Sales supervisors and buyers | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 43 | Technical salesmen, commercial travellers and man. agents | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 44 | Insurance, real estate and business serv. salesmen and auct. | 0 |
0%
|
| 45 | Salesmen, shop assistants and related workers | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 49 | Sales workers not elsewhere classified | 27 |
1.7%
|
| 50 | Managers (catering, lodging service) | 0 |
0%
|
| 51 | Working proprietors (catering and lodging services) | 0 |
0%
|
| 52 | Housekeeping and related service supervisors | 0 |
0%
|
| 53 | Cooks, waiters, bartenders and related workers | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 54 | Maids and rel. housekeeping service workers | 0 |
0%
|
| 55 | Building caretakers, charworkers, cleaners and rel. workers | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 56 | Launderers, dry-cleaners and pressers | 0 |
0%
|
| 57 | Hairdressers, barbers, beauticians and related workers | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 58 | Protective service workers | 17 |
1.1%
|
| 59 | Service workers not elsewhere classified | 72 |
4.7%
|
| 60 | Farm managers and supervisors | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 61 | Farmers | 678 |
43.9%
|
| 62 | Agricultural and animal husbandry workers | 11 |
0.7%
|
| 63 | Forestry workers | 0 |
0%
|
| 64 | Fishermen, hunters and related workers | 20 |
1.3%
|
| 69 | Unemployed and new workers searching for employment | 19 |
1.2%
|
| 70 | Production supervisors and general foremen | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 71 | Miners, quarrymen, well drillers and related workers | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 72 | Metal processors | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 73 | Wood preparation workers and paper makers | 0 |
0%
|
| 74 | Chemical processors and related workers | 0 |
0%
|
| 75 | Spinners, weavers, knitters, dyers and related workers | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 76 | Tanners, fishmongers and pelt pressers | 0 |
0%
|
| 77 | Food and beverage processors | 19 |
1.2%
|
| 78 | Tobacco preparers and tobacco product makers | 0 |
0%
|
| 79 | Tailors, dressmakers, sewers, upholsterers, and rel. workers | 27 |
1.7%
|
| 80 | Shoemakers and leather goods makers | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 81 | Cabinet makers and related wood workers | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 82 | Stone carvers and stone cutters | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 83 | Blacksmith, toolmakers and machine tool operators | 7 |
0.5%
|
| 84 | Machinery, fitters, machine assemblers and prec. inst. maker | 29 |
1.9%
|
| 85 | Electrical fitters and rel. electrical and electronics work. | 21 |
1.4%
|
| 86 | Broadcasting stations, sound equipment and cinema operators | 0 |
0%
|
| 87 | Plumbers, welders, sheet-metal and strucural metal preparers | 6 |
0.4%
|
| 88 | Juwelry and precious metal workers | 0 |
0%
|
| 89 | Glass formers, potters and related workers | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 90 | Rubber and plastic product makers | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 91 | Paper and paperboard product makers | 0 |
0%
|
| 92 | Printers and related workers | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 93 | Painters | 8 |
0.5%
|
| 94 | Production and rel. workers not elsewhere classified | 6 |
0.4%
|
| 95 | Bricklayers, carpenters and other construction workers | 87 |
5.6%
|
| 96 | Stationary engine and related equipment workers | 0 |
0%
|
| 97 | Mat. handling and rel. eq. workers, dockers, freight handler | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 98 | Transport equipment operators | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 99 | Labourers not elsewhere classified | 22 |
1.4%
|
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.