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Ghana Living Standards Survey 2:1988-1989
Second round

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  • Y01C-children
    residing
    elsewhere
  • Y00A-survey
    information
  • Y00B-survey
    results
  • Y00C-completing
    sections
  • Y01A-household
    roster
  • Y01B-parents of
    hh member
  • Y04-health
  • Y02A-type of
    dwelling
  • Y02B-housing
    expenses
  • Y03-education
  • Y08-characteristics
    of housing
  • Y05A-job search
  • Y05B-main job 7
    days
  • Y05C-secondary
    job 7 days
  • Y05D-additional
    employment
  • Y05E-main job
    12 months
  • Y05F-employment
    history
  • Y05G-secondary
    job 12 months
  • Y05H-other
    activities
  • Y06-migration
  • Y07-respondents
    for round 2
  • Y16B-anthropometrics
    2
  • Y09A-land
  • Y09B-crop
  • Y09C-tree crop
  • Y09D1A-farm
    inputs-seeds
  • Y09D1B-farm
    inputs-fertiliser
  • Y09D1C-farm
    inputs-organic
    manure
  • Y09D2A-farm
    inputs-insecticides
  • Y09D2B-farm
    inputs-transport
  • Y09D2C-farm
    inputs-sacks
  • Y09D3A-farm
    inputs-storage
  • Y09D3B-farm
    inputs-labor &
    other expense
  • Y09D4A- farm
    inputs-hh
    sharecrop
  • Y09D4B-farm
    inputs-other
    sharecrop
  • Y09D4C-farm
    inputs-hh
    consumption
  • Y09D5-farm
    inputs-agric
    agent
  • Y09E-sale of
    products
  • Y09F-livestock
  • Y09G-animal
    products
  • Y09H-contract
    for livestock
  • Y09I-livestock
    expenditure
  • Y09J-hand tools
  • Y09K-farming
    equipment
  • Y10A-nonfarm
    working
    condition
  • Y10B-nonfarm
    expenditure
  • Y10C-nonfarm
    revenue
  • Y10D-nonfarm
    assets
  • Y11A-daily
    expenses
  • Y11B-annual
    expenses
  • Y11C-durable
    goods
  • Y11D-remittances
  • Y12A-food
    expense
  • Y12B-consumption
    of own produce
  • Y13A1A-fertility
    history A
  • Y13A1B-fertility
    history B
  • Y13A2-fertility
    history C
  • Y13B-birth
    control
  • Y14A-income
    from remittance
  • Y14B-miscellaneous
    income
  • Y15A-money and
    goods lent
  • Y15B-loans
    contracted
  • Y15C-savings
  • Y16A-anthropometrics
    1
  • COMM-community
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11BQ1: CODE OF HOUSEHOLD EXPENSE (hhexpcd)

Data file: Y11B-annual expenses

Overview

Valid: 43031
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 115
Maximum: 145
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 33
End: 40
Width: 8
Range: 115 - 145
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
115 Shoes for adults (leather, plastic) 2745
6.4%
116 Children's shoes (leather, plastic) 1944
4.5%
117 Domestic or imported cloth (Kente, Adinkra, etc) 2016
4.7%
118 Material for adult clothing 1290
3%
119 Material for children's clothes 882
2%
120 Adult clothing (suits, dresses, pyjamas, underclothes, etc.) 2528
5.9%
121 Children's clothing (suits, shirts, etc.) 2070
4.8%
122 Repairs and other expenses for vehicles, other than gasoline 122
0.3%
123 Public transport, taxis, etc. 2869
6.7%
124 Home repairs, painting, insurance, etc. 610
1.4%
125 Books, notebokks, newspaper, stationery, etc. not for school 831
1.9%
126 Table-top stoves and coal-pots 447
1%
127 Medicines (modern and traditional) 2903
6.7%
128 Medical services, such as doctor or healer, and other expens 1945
4.5%
129 Kitchen equipment (cups, cutlery, plates, saucepans, etc. 1676
3.9%
130 Lanterns and lamps 1200
2.8%
131 Furniture (beds, tables, cupboards, chairs, rugs, etc.) 491
1.1%
132 Linen (sheets, towels, blankets, etc.) 1966
4.6%
133 Envelopes, writing paper, stamps, telephone, telegraph 768
1.8%
134 Hairderssing, hair cut, etc. 1783
4.1%
135 Domestic servants (maids, houseboys, cooks, etc.) 20
0%
136 Jewellery, watches, etc. 1868
4.3%
137 Entertainment (cinema, sports, records, tapes, toys, etc.) 623
1.4%
138 Taxes 2316
5.4%
139 Reimbursment of loans and interest to banks and other lender 293
0.7%
140 Susu (informal rotating fund) 421
1%
141 Weddings and dowries 359
0.8%
142 Funerals 2525
5.9%
143 Gifts 2161
5%
144 Other expenses (Specify..........) 534
1.2%
145 Household member lost money during past 12 months? 825
1.9%
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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