Ghanaian Establishment Panel Study 2003-2014
Ghana, 2003 - 2016
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Ghanaian Establishment Panel Study 2003-2014
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Ghana | GHA |
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.
The data is created from two firm censuses, both conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service. These were the 2003 NIC and the 2014 IBES. Identifying information on these firms such as firm name, firm locations, contact person, contact number etc were sourced from GSS for IBES 2014 and from Francis Teal for 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
Establishments
Version
v1: Edited and anonymised for public use
2021-03-04
Scope
The panel data file contains the firm IDs from IBES and NIC for firms that were found in both waves.
Coverage
This panel is a handful of firms we found that were interviewed in both 2003 and 2014 - it is not geographically representative.
The lowest geographic level in the GSS public release data is the district.
Establishments in Ghana.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Ghanaian Statistical Service | Government of Ghana |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Panel Creation |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Netherlands Government | IBES funder |
| United Kingdom Government | IBES funder |
| World Bank | IBES funder |
| Project for Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries | IBES phase 2 funder |
| Danish International Development Agency | NIC funder |
Sampling
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
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 2003 | NIC phase 1 |
| 2004 | 2004 | NIC phase 2 |
| 2014 | 2014 | IBES phase 1 |
| 2015 | 2016 | IBES phase 2 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Ghanaian Statistical Service | Government of Ghana |
This panel was created by matching firms in the NIC and IBES firm censuses. IBES Questionnaires for phase 1 and 2 can be found on the DataFirst website under the IBES phase 2 study: https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog/858
NIC 2003 Questionnaires can be found on Francis Teal's website: https://www.empiricalde.com/ghana-firm-census-1987-and-2003.
Data processing
A detailed guide on how the NIC and IBES firms were matched using fuzzy algorithms has been uploaded for the users reference.
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
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | support.data1st.org | support@data1st.org |
Public use files, available to all
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.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Support | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | www.support.data1st.org |
Metadata production
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
2021
Metadata version
Version 1