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2010 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2010
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GHA_2010_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Ghana Statistical Service, IPUMS
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Employment sector (GH2010A_EMPSECT)

Data file: GHA2010_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 194
End: 194
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions P00-P20 were asked for persons in both the household and non-household populations.]</p>

<p><span class="em">Economic activity -- P13-P17: Should be related to the past 7 days preceding census night </span>
<br />[P13 to P17 were asked of all persons age 5 years or older.]</p>

<p>[Questions P14-P17 were asked of persons age 5 or older who were engaged in an activity for pay in the 7 days prior to the census (per question P13a) or had worked before and were seeking work or had been engaged in voluntary work without pay in the 7 days prior to the census (per question P13b).]</p>

<p>P17. Employment sector.
<br />In what sector was [the respondent] mainly working?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Public (government)<br />[] 2 Private formal<br />[] 3 Private informal<br />[] 4 Semi-public, parastatal<br />[] 5 NGO (local and international)<br />[] 6 International organization</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Public (government)
2 Private formal
3 Private informal
4 Semi-public, parastatal
5 NGOs (local and international)
6 Other international organizations
9 NIU (not in universe)
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the sector the person was working in.
Universe
Ghana 2010: Persons age 5+ who are economically active [discrepancies none]

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