Ghana Living Standard Survey 4 - 1998

With labour force model

The purpose of this section is to identify usual members of households, and to collect demographic data such as age, sex, marital status etc. regardless of his or her other socioeconomic standing.

Harvest and disposal of crops-8c ask questions about all crops (grains) that have been harvested in the last 12 months

Harvest and disposal of crops-8c ask questions about all crops (roots, fruits, vegetables and other crops harvested piecemeal) that have been harvested in the last 12 months

Seasonality of sales and purchases-8d basically on staple foods

Other agricultural income-8e focuses on household sales or produce during the last 12 month

Processing of agricultural produce-8f focuses on costs and expenses incurred over the past 12 months on livestock and production of crops.

Consumption of own produce-8h

Non food expenses-9a2 focuses on household purchases

Basic characteristics of non farm enterpriise -10a Thus, non-farm enterprise

Expenditures -1st, 2nd and 3rd enterprises - 10b Thus expenses for the household or an enterprise

Assets -1st, 2nd and 3rd enterprises - 10c

Revenue of the enterprise - 10c

Net income and revenue of the enterprise - 10e

Transfer payment made by household -11a1 Information on cash and/or in-kind remittances is collected in this section. Transfers to the
household are considered as income whereas transfers from the household constitute expenditures. In the analysis however, net remittance is used.

Transfer payment made by household -11a2

Income from transfers - 11b1

Income from transfers - 11b2

Miscelleneous income -11c

Miscelleneous outgoings - 11d

Credits -12a1, credit assets and savings

Credits -12a2

assets and durable consumer goode -12b

Savings - 12c

The quality of house occupied by the household is paramount to the welfare of the members.
In this regard, the section seeks information on the type of dwelling, occupancy status, number
of rooms and room space, expenditures, utilities and amenities as well as the physical
characteristics of the dwelling.

The objective of this section is to measure the level of education or formal schooling of all
household members aged five (5) years or more. It is also intended to measure how much was
spent on education of household members during the past 12 months, time spent on primary
schooling, type of school (public or private) attended and the highest educational qualification
achieved, including short training course. Information on adult literacy levels and
apprenticeship of persons was also collected in this section.

Education Carrier-2b section gathers information on vocational and technical school attended

Literacy/apprenticeship-2c section figure out whether the respondent can read and write a simple sentence in any Ghanaian language and can do written calculation

This section gathers information on health status of all household members that will be used to
measure the cost of medical care and the use made of the different kinds of health services and
facilities available.

Preventive health-Vas-3b Information on preventive services during the past 12 months, fertility and
child mortality is collected.

Post-natal care-3c for the purpose of this survey post natal care covers children 5 years and below and persons interviewed are child's mother or adult household member in charge

Prenatal care- Contraceptive use- respondents are women 15 to 49 years old and individuals should each answer for themselves

This section is designed to gather information on employment, time use and the different sources
of income for household members aged 7 years and over. This section is the special module of
the fourth round of the survey and is therefore expanded to include several labour details.

This section is designed to gather information on employment, time use and focus on characteristics of main occupation

This section is designed to gather information on employment, time use and focus on secondary occupation during the last 12 months

This section is designed to gather information on employment, time use and focus on third occupation during the last 12 months

Employment search-4e activity status and employment search in the last 7 days

activity status in the last two weeks

Employment history thus, jobs done prior to the last 12 months

House keeping activities -4j all household members 7 years and older

The purpose of this section is to gather limited data on the spatial mobility of household
members. The section is brief, focusing on the most recent migration to elicit information on
previous place of residence, type of work and reasons for moving.