Afrobarometer Survey 2019, Round 8
Ghana, 2019
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Reference ID
GHA_2019_AFB-R8_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
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Oct 14, 2021
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- gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Q96c. Occupation of head of household (Q96C)
Data file: gha_r8_data_27oct20.sav
Overview
Valid:
2400
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1439
End:
1440
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
If respondent is not the head of household, i.e. if the response to 96B was NOT 1=You [respondent] or 99=Don’t know, ask:
Literal question
What is the main occupation of the head of the household?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Never had a job | 25 |
1%
|
| 1 | Student | 15 |
0.6%
|
| 2 | Housewife / homemaker | 11 |
0.5%
|
| 3 | Agriculture / farming / fishing / forestry | 477 |
19.9%
|
| 4 | Trader / hawker / vendor | 155 |
6.5%
|
| 5 | Retail / Shop | 21 |
0.9%
|
| 6 | Unskilled manual worker (e.g., cleaner, laborer, domestic help, unskilled manufacturing worker) | 39 |
1.6%
|
| 7 | Artisan or skilled manual worker (e.g., trades like electrician, mechanic, machinist or skilled manufacturing worker) | 152 |
6.3%
|
| 8 | Clerical or secretarial | 4 |
0.2%
|
| 9 | Supervisor / Foreman / Senior Manager | 18 |
0.8%
|
| 10 | Security services (police, army, private security) | 26 |
1.1%
|
| 11 | Mid-level professional (e.g., teacher, nurse, mid-level government officer) | 59 |
2.5%
|
| 12 | Upper-level professional (e.g., banker/finance, doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant, professor, senior-level government | 43 |
1.8%
|
| 95 | Other | 63 |
2.6%
|
| 97 | Not Applicable | 1286 |
53.6%
|
| 98 | Refused | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 99 | Don’t know | 4 |
0.2%
|
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.
Interviewer instructions
Do not read options.
Code from responses.
Code from responses.
Question post text
If unemployed, retired, or disabled, ask: "What was his or her last main occupation?"