Documentation

File Name

Description and Format

Describes the design of the survey and its coverage for potential users and provides general information about the general characteristics of the 1998/99 GLSS survey. It also discusses the data files and constructed variables.

 

This questionnaire is an essential tool for using the 1998/99 GLSS data sets. In addition to the questions, it also contains codes and skip patterns.

  

This document contains the community questionnaire used to collect community level information.

 

This document collects information on 71 food items and 52 non-food items for use in calculating price adjustments to the expenditures aggregate.

 

This document contains the instructions to be followed by the survey supervisors.

 

This document contains detailed information to the interviewers.

This document contains instructions for the key entry of the data. 

 

This document contains information on how the income and expenditure aggregates were calculated from the 1991/92 and 1998/99 surveys.

 

This report contains the main results of the fourth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS4).

 

This report presents an analysis of poverty patterns and trends in Ghana based on the results of the 1991/92 and 1998/99 Ghana Living Standards Surveys.