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Ghana 2024 Integrated Business Establishment Survey I (IBES1 2024)

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GHA_2024_IBES1_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Services (GSS), Ghana Statistical Service
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Economics
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Aug 22, 2025
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Identification

Survey ID Number
GHA_2024_IBES1_v01_M
Title
Ghana 2024 Integrated Business Establishment Survey I (IBES1 2024)
Country
Name
Ghana
Unit of Analysis
- All businesses. These businesses engaged in economic activities, including non-profit institutions,
cutting across all sectors of the economy. Each production unit within a particular business will be
captured as a separate entity if it is or has a legal unit:
A legal unit is a unit that has legal personality, i.e. the law attributes rights and obligations to it, in
the sense that it has:
1. Right of ownership, permitting it to hold assets in its own name;
2. Right to engage in activities in its own name and on its own behalf;
3. Right to conclude contracts with third parties;
4. Right to institute legal proceedings, i.e. to defend its interests; and
5. Right to dispose of its assets and resources
The 2023 IBES captured business establishments operating from:
6. Residential building
7. Non-residential buildings with an enclosure;
8. Non-residential building without enclosure, such as sheds;
9. Temporal fixed locations but in structures.
10. In addition to establishments, the 2023 IBES I covered:
a) Open spaces but are in fixed locations;
b) Vehicles, hawkers etc. (Mobile businesses);

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
The IBES I targeted all business establishments in Ghana, with an establishment defined as an "entity undertaking an
economic activity at a specific physical location". It also includes businesses with open spaces but in fixed locations, and
mobile businesses

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
Ghana Statistical Services (GSS)
Ghana Statistical Service
Producers
Name
Ghana Statistical Service
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name
World Bank

Data Collection

Data Collection Mode
CAPI

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI-GHA-GSS-IBES1-2024-v01
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