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Ghanaian Establishment Panel Study 2003-2014

Ghana, 2003 - 2016
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Data processing
  • Data appraisal
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

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    gha-gss-geps-2003-2014-v1
    Title

    Ghanaian Establishment Panel Study 2003-2014
    Abbreviation or Acronym

    GEPS 2003-2014
    Country
    Name Country code
    Ghana GHA
    Study type

    Enterprise/Establishment Census
    Abstract

    The data is created from two firm censuses, both conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service. These were the 2003 National Industrial Census (NIC) and the 2014 Integrated Business Establishment Survey (IBES). Identifying information on these firms such as firm name, firm locations, contact person, contact number etc were sourced from GSS for the Integrated Business Establishement Survey (IBES) 2014 and from Francis Teal for National Industrial Census (NIC) 2003. This information was used to match firms over the 2 waves. The creation of the panel was funded by the Project for Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL) and was undertaken by Andrew Kerr and Bruce McDougall of DataFirst, University of Cape Town.
    Kind of Data

    Census/enumeration data
    Unit of Analysis

    Establishments

    Version

    Version Description

    v1: Edited and anonymised for public use
    Version Date

    2021-03-04

    Scope

    Notes

    The panel data file contains the firm IDs from IBES and NIC for firms that were found in both waves.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    This panel is a handful of firms that were interviewed in both 2003 and 2014. Iit is not geographically representative.
    Geographic Unit

    The lowest geographic level in the GSS public release data is the district.
    Universe

    Establishments in Ghana.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Ghanaian Statistical Service Government of Ghana
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Panel Creation
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Abbreviation Role
    Netherlands Government NL IBES funder
    United Kingdom Government UK IBES funder
    World Bank WB IBES funder
    Project for Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries PEDL IBES phase 2 funder
    Danish International Development Agency DANIDA NIC funder

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    This dataset is a panel derived from matching firms that were included in two Ghanaian censuses, NIC 2003 and IBES 2014. Each of these censuses had two phases. 2014 IBES Phase 1 was a census of non-household establishments with a fixed site and any household-based business with a sign indicating its presence within a household. Phase 2 was a stratified roughly 5% sample of the phase 1 firms. NIC 2003 Phase 1 was a census of non-household establishments with a fixed site and any household-based business with a sign indicating its presence within a household. Phase 2 was a stratified sample. All establishments with 10 or more persons engaged were enumerated and 5% firms with less than 10 persons engaged were sampled for phase 2. The phase 1 data was used to match firms across 2003 NIC and 2014 IBES and create the panel. This matching is likely to be non-random and a function of observable and unobservable characteristics. Thus the panel SHOULD NOT be considered a random sample of establishments alive in both 2003 and 2014.

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2003 2003 NIC phase 1
    2004 2004 NIC phase 2
    2014 2014 IBES phase 1
    2015 2016 IBES phase 2
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation Abbreviation
    Ghanaian Statistical Service Government of Ghana GSS
    Data Collection Notes

    This panel was created by matching firms in two establisment censuses conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service, the National Industrial Census (NIC) 2003 and the
    Integrated Business Establishment Survey (IBES) 2014. IBES Questionnaires for phase 1 and 2 can be found on the DataFirst website under the IBES phase 2 study: https://doi.org/10.25828/7er4-cz67

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    A detailed guide on how the NIC and IBES firms were matched using fuzzy algorithms has been uploaded for the users reference.

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal

    The main data quality issue that users should be aware of is that these firms were matched using fuzzy logic. Not all the matches are strong matches and some might be false matches.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town support.data1st.org support@data1st.org
    Access conditions

    Public use files, available to all
    Citation requirements

    Ghana Statistical Service and DataFirst. Ghanaian Establishment Panel Study 2003-2014 [dataset]. Version 1. Ghana: Ghana Statistical Service and DataFirst [producers], 2021. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/EC26-1849

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support@data1st.org www.support.data1st.org

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2026-05-11

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 2
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