Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey (AHIES) 2022-2024
Ghana
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Why has (NAME) not made any effort to find work or start a business? (s4eq3)
Data file: 2023 AHIES Q1-Q4_Rev_20250827
Overview
Valid:
9053
Invalid:
187900
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
21
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
Range:
1 - 21
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No jobs available | 3470 |
38.3%
|
| 2 | Unable to find work requiring NAME's skills | 453 |
5%
|
| 3 | Lost hope of finding any kind of .work | 185 |
2%
|
| 4 | Lacks necessary schooling, training, skills or experience | 1946 |
21.5%
|
| 5 | Employers think too old/too young to work | 139 |
1.5%
|
| 6 | Awaiting the seasons for work | 307 |
3.4%
|
| 7 | Waiting to be recalled to former job | 59 |
0.7%
|
| 8 | Pregnancy | 147 |
1.6%
|
| 9 | Sickness/injury | 251 |
2.8%
|
| 10 | Disabled or unable to work (handicapped | 56 |
0.6%
|
| 11 | Housewife/family responsibilities) | 329 |
3.6%
|
| 12 | Child care problems | 244 |
2.7%
|
| 13 | Education or training | 223 |
2.5%
|
| 14 | Undergoing training to help find work | 30 |
0.3%
|
| 15 | Transportation problems | 17 |
0.2%
|
| 16 | Retirement | 330 |
3.6%
|
| 17 | Believe that no work is available | 269 |
3%
|
| 18 | Legal restriction (convict and others restricted by law) | 1 |
0%
|
| 19 | Await result for recruitment to the public service | 132 |
1.5%
|
| 20 | Do not want to work | 166 |
1.8%
|
| 21 | Other (specify) | 299 |
3.3%
|
| Sysmiss | 187900 |
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.