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Ghana Living Standards Measurement Survey 2008

General Info

Original or alternative title 
Ghana Living Standards Survey 5+ (GLSS5+), 2008 Baseline
Provider 
Millennium Challenge Corporation
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Geography 
Ghana (GHA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
April, 2008 - September, 2008
Series or system 
Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)
Data type
Survey: Household - Urban-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.

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