NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title Ghana Living Standards Survey 5+ (GLSS5+), 2008 Baseline Provider Millennium Challenge CorporationMicrodata access: Download Geography Ghana (GHA) Coverage type Country Time period covered 04/2008 - 09/2008 Series or system Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) Data type Survey: HouseholdUrban-rural representative Summary "The GLSS5+ is to provide information on patterns of household consumption and expenditure at a greater level of disaggregation and to provide the baseline information to support long-term monitoring of the MiDA program. This information was intended to help ISSER and other institutions to track the long-term evolution of living standards and economic opportunities in Ghana." - source: MCC Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Agriculture, Antenatal care, Assets, Birth control pills, Breastfeeding, Community health clinics, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cooking fuels, Crops, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Disability, Domestic migration, Education, Education access, Education expenditures, Electricity, Employment, Employment benefits, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Fertilizers, Fish, Fishing, Food expenditures, Fruits, Health behaviors, Health care access, Health care personnel, Health care use, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household expenditures, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, IUDs, Immunization, Income, Infant mortality, Infrastructure, Injectable contraceptives, Injuries, International migration, Internet, Land ownership, Languages, Legumes, Length of stay, Lighting, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Living conditions, Loans, Marital status, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Meat, Medicines, Milk, Mining, Mortality, Nonprofits, Nuts, Occupation codes, Occupations, Pentavalent vaccines, Personal health expenditures, Pesticides, Pharmacies, Polio vaccines, Postnatal care, Postpartum amenorrhea, Prices, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Rainfall, Refrigeration, Religion, Roads, Sanitation, School conditions, School enrollment, Sexual abstinence, Sexual sterilization, Starchy vegetables, Stillbirths, Summary birth history, Taxes, Telephones, Tobacco, Traditional birth control, Training programs, Transportation, Unemployment, Unprocessed red meat, Vaccination cards, Vegetables, Vitamin A supplements, Waste disposal, Water supply, Whole grains, Yellow fever vaccines Citation Contributors Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana Publisher Millennium Challenge Corporation Suggested citation Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana. Ghana Living Standards Measurement Survey 2008. Washington, DC, United States of America: Millennium Challenge Corporation. GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 11, 2024