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Financial Service Survey 2006

Ghana, 2006
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GHA-GSS-FSS-2006-v1.0
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Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
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Economics
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  • Section 1 -
    Respondent
    characteristics
  • Section 2 -
    Access and use
    of financial
    services and
    products
  • Section 3 -
    Access and use
    of financial
    services and
    products
  • Section 4 -
    Actions and
    attitudes
    towards use of
    financial
    services and
    products

First reason for not opening account (s4q2a)

Data file: Section 4 - Actions and attitudes towards use of financial services and products

Overview

Valid: 2793
Invalid: 524
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 14
End: 15
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 12
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
There are many reasons why people do not have a bank account. Please tell me, in the order of importance, the three main reasons why you do not have a bank account?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 The charges and fees are too high 153
5.5%
2 There are no banks or institutions close to you 101
3.6%
3 You do not meet minimum requirements 652
23.3%
4 There is too much corruptions 21
0.8%
5 Hours of operation not convenient 12
0.4%
6 You don't have an identity document 29
1%
7 You cannot affort to keep a minimum balance in the bank 506
18.1%
8 You do not trust banks or other institutions 16
0.6%
9 You prefer to deal in cash 175
6.3%
10 You are too young to qualify to open an account 166
5.9%
11 You never thought about it 349
12.5%
12 Other 613
21.9%
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.
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