{"doc_desc":{"title":"gha-isser-gseps-2009-v1"},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"gha-isser-gseps-2009-v1","title":"Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey 2009","sub_title":"Wave 1","alt_title":"GSEPS 2009"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER)","affiliation":"University of Ghana"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Economic Growth Center","affiliation":"Yale University","role":"Survey design"},{"name":"Global Poverty Research Lab","affiliation":"Northwestern University","role":"Survey design"}],"funding_agencies":[{"name":"Economic Growth Center","abbreviation":"EGC","role":"Funder"},{"name":"Global Poverty Research Lab","abbreviation":"GPRL","role":"Funder"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Socio-Economic\/Monitoring Survey [hh\/sems]"},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 1","version_date":"2010-08"},"study_info":{"abstract":"The Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey is a joint effort between the Economic Growth Center at Yale University (Wave 1 2009), the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University (Wave 2 2013) and the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research at the University of Ghana. The survey is meant to remedy a major constraint on the understanding of development in low-income countries - the absence of detailed, multi-level and long-term scientific data that follows individuals over time and describes both the natural and built environment in which the individuals reside. Most data collection efforts are short-term - carried out a one point in time; are limited in scope - collecting information on only a few aspects of the lives of the persons in the study; and when there are multiple rounds of data collection, individuals who leave the study area are dropped. This latter means that the most mobile people are not included in existing surveys and studies, perhaps substantially biasing inferences about who benefits from and who bears the cost of the development process. The goal of this survey, which aims to follow all individuals, or a random subset, over time using a comprehensive set of survey instruments is thus to shed new light on long-run processes of economic development.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2009-11","end":"2010-04","cycle":"Wave 1"}],"nation":[{"name":"Ghana","abbreviation":"gha"}],"geog_coverage":"The data from the baseline Ghana Socio-Economic Panel Survey consists of a nationally representative sample of 5009 households in 334 enumeration areas (EAs) containing 18,889 household members.","geog_unit":"The data is at the leve of district and community","analysis_unit":"Households and individuals","data_kind":"Sample survey data","notes":"The data consists of the following:\n\nDemographic Characteristics, employment, education, and migration. \nInformation on non resident relatives and spouses. \nHousehold assets-livestock, tools, durable goods and financial assets (borrowing, lending, out and in transfers and savings. \nAgricultural production-land information, crop sales and storage \nNon-farm Household Enterprises-types, assets and finance, labour, revenue and expenses. \nHousehold health and fertility- women's health, men's health and power relations for men and women \nA children's module-health, Digit Span test, Raven's Pattern Cognitive Assessment \nHousing and Housing Conditions Prices of Consumer Items. \nPsychology and Social Network-Kessler 10 Depression, time use, Big 5 Personality questions and information seeking \nHousehold Consumption and Expenditure \nHousing characteristics"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research","abbreviation":"ISSER","affiliation":"University of Ghana"}],"coll_mode":"Face-to-face Interviews","research_instrument":"There are two questionnaires, Part A and Part B, which collected data on households and household members.","coll_situation":"The main field work for the survey covered a 6-month period (November 2009 to April 2010) in order to ensure that enough household baseline information was gathered. Seventeen teams were involved in the data collection. Each of the teams was made up of a Supervisor, a Senior Interviewer, four Interviewers and a Driver. A number of supervisory teams from ISSER visited the field at regular intervals to enforce good quality control for field operations and also shaped the direction for the survey."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"Ghana ACEIR Hub, ISSER","affiliation":"University of Ghana","email":"joanakwawu@gmail.com","uri":"www.isser.ug.edu.gh"}],"cit_req":"Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research. Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey 2009, Wave 1 [dataset]. Version 1. Accra: ISSER [producer], 2010. Accra: Ghana ACEIR Hub [distributor], 2021.","conditions":"Public access data, available to all"}}},"schematype":"survey"}