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Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey 2018-2019, Wave 3

Ghana, 2018 - 2019
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Categories
Value Category Cases
-999 1
0.1%
A caretaker and a contributing worker for a cocoa farm 1
0.1%
A cleaner at district assembly 1
0.1%
A clerk at African Motors 1
0.1%
A contributing farmer of a cabbage farm 1
0.1%
A contributing worker of a yam Farm 1
0.1%
A contributing worker on a tomatoe farm 1
0.1%
A driver working at state transport company 1
0.1%
A teacher assigned to a particular class to be in charge Teaching and impacting knowledge to pupils Giving and marking assignments Marking and recording attendance of his pupils 1
0.1%
A teacher at a basic school 1
0.1%
A teacher at the abaase presby school 1
0.1%
A teacher at the local authority school 1
0.1%
Administrator 1
0.1%
Administrator ( N. C. C. E) 1
0.1%
Administrator at SSNIT 1
0.1%
Agric extension officer 1
0.1%
Ahamadiyya pastor 1
0.1%
Applying plaster to walls 1
0.1%
Auto Electrician 1
0.1%
Automechanic 1
0.1%
Babering 1
0.1%
Baby Sitter 1
0.1%
Baby sitter 2
0.2%
Bake bread and pastries 1
0.1%
Baking bread 1
0.1%
Baking of bread 2
0.2%
Baking of bread and bakery products 1
0.1%
Baking of meat pie 1
0.1%
Bar attendant 3
0.3%
Bar tender 1
0.1%
Barbering 1
0.1%
Bartender 4
0.4%
Beautician 1
0.1%
Block layer 1
0.1%
Block making 1
0.1%
Blocks Layer 2
0.2%
Blocks moulding 1
0.1%
Boat Sealer 1
0.1%
Body guard 1
0.1%
Brewing and retailing of pito at home 1
0.1%
Building 1
0.1%
Building Constructor 1
0.1%
Building and construction 3
0.3%
Building artisans Tarazzo 1
0.1%
Building construction 2
0.2%
Building construction laborer 1
0.1%
Building electrical technician 2
0.2%
Building frame and related trades workers 1
0.1%
Building frame and related trades workers(Bricklaying) 1
0.1%
Building materials shop keeping 1
0.1%
Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) Officer 1
0.1%
Burning of Charcoal 1
0.1%
Bus conductor 1
0.1%
Calculations of expenses in coconut oil production 1
0.1%
Capentry 1
0.1%
Car wiring/ lighting 1
0.1%
Caretaker and a contributing worker on a cashew farm 1
0.1%
Caretaker farmer 1
0.1%
Caring for the aged 1
0.1%
Carpenter 3
0.3%
Carpentery 2
0.2%
Carpentry 18
2%
Carpentry work 1
0.1%
Carrying goods at a wholesale store 1
0.1%
Carrying of woods 1
0.1%
Carving of wood 1
0.1%
Casual labour 1
0.1%
Caterer 1
0.1%
Catering services 1
0.1%
Chain saw operator 4
0.4%
Chainsaw operator 4
0.4%
Chin Saw oporating 1
0.1%
Chin saw operating 1
0.1%
Chop bar assistant 1
0.1%
Chop bar attendant 1
0.1%
Civil Engineer Labourers(Road construction) 1
0.1%
Civil Engineering Labourers(Road construction) 1
0.1%
Cleaner 4
0.4%
Cleaner at a University 1
0.1%
Cleaning of buildings (homes) 1
0.1%
Cleaning office at the Education office 1
0.1%
Clearing agent (harbor work) 1
0.1%
Clearing weeds on afforestation sites 1
0.1%
Clerk 3
0.3%
Client Information Worker (Tourist guide) 1
0.1%
Cocoa Farming 3
0.3%
Cocoa farming 1
0.1%
Cocoa loader 1
0.1%
Cocoa nursery grower 1
0.1%
Cocoa pollination 1
0.1%
Collecting of levy from citizens [levy collector] 1
0.1%
Commercial Trotro Driver 1
0.1%
Commercial driver 4
0.4%
Community Nursing 1
0.1%
Compass man 1
0.1%
Conductor 1
0.1%
Construction 3
0.3%
Construction Mason 1
0.1%
Construction labourer 3
0.3%
Construction work 3
0.3%
Construction. (Mason) 1
0.1%
Cook 5
0.6%
Cook and sell food at the station 1
0.1%
Cooking 3
0.3%
Cooking and selling food 1
0.1%
Cooking and selling of food 1
0.1%
Cooking and selling of food (food vendor) 1
0.1%
Cooking at public eating place 1
0.1%
Cooking food for sale 1
0.1%
Cooks (chop bar) 1
0.1%
Cooks at School 1
0.1%
Cooks at a chop bar 1
0.1%
Corn Milling Machine Operator 2
0.2%
Cosmetics shop 1
0.1%
Crop Farm Labourer 15
1.7%
Cutting of trees 1
0.1%
Dam construction worker 1
0.1%
Digging for Gold 1
0.1%
Digging of small scale mining pit 1
0.1%
Digging small scale mining pit(Galamsey ) 1
0.1%
Domestic work 1
0.1%
Door-to-door marketing 1
0.1%
Dress making 2
0.2%
Drill Arrangements 1
0.1%
Driver 1
0.1%
Driver at construction site 2
0.2%
Driver of a tractor that was incharge of carrying farm produce from the various farms of farmers 1
0.1%
Driver's mate 1
0.1%
Driver's mate/Bus conductor 1
0.1%
Driving 16
1.8%
Driving heavy duty vehicle 1
0.1%
Driving of commercial vehicles 1
0.1%
Driving of vehicle 1
0.1%
Electric pole wiring 1
0.1%
Electric welder 1
0.1%
Electrical wiring 1
0.1%
Electricals 1
0.1%
Electrician 2
0.2%
Electrician (house wiring) 1
0.1%
Elementary occupation 1
0.1%
Excavator operator 1
0.1%
Factory Metal works 1
0.1%
Farm Laborer 2
0.2%
Farm Labour 1
0.1%
Farm hand 1
0.1%
Farm labour 2
0.2%
Farm labourer 6
0.7%
Farm labourer/ Growing of vegetables 1
0.1%
Farm work (weeding) 1
0.1%
Farming 26
2.9%
Farming activities 1
0.1%
Farming and a caretaker of a farm 1
0.1%
Farming together with family relatives 1
0.1%
Field Assistant 1
0.1%
Filling Station attendant 2
0.2%
Fish Trading 1
0.1%
Fish seller 1
0.1%
Fisherman 8
0.9%
Fishing 10
1.1%
Fishmonger 5
0.6%
Fitting 1
0.1%
Fitting at construction work 1
0.1%
Food Packaging 2
0.2%
Food Preparation Assistant 10
1.1%
Food and beverages 1
0.1%
Food business 1
0.1%
Food preparation 1
0.1%
Food preparation assistant 3
0.3%
Food sale 1
0.1%
Food vending 1
0.1%
Food vendor 2
0.2%
Foodstuffs Vendor 1
0.1%
Football 5
0.6%
Footballer 2
0.2%
Forestry plant operator 1
0.1%
Fuel attendant 1
0.1%
Full time home maker (maid) 1
0.1%
Galamsey 3
0.3%
Galamsey ( Mining Laborer) 1
0.1%
Galamsey Mining Laborer 1
0.1%
Galamsey work 1
0.1%
Galamsy 1
0.1%
Gathering cocoa 1
0.1%
Gold grader 2
0.2%
Gold mining 1
0.1%
Grinding mail operator 1
0.1%
Growing of crops(crop production) 1
0.1%
Growing of tree crops 1
0.1%
Growing of vegetables 1
0.1%
Hairdressing 4
0.4%
Handicraft worker in textiles 1
0.1%
Harvesting of cocoa 1
0.1%
Hawking 2
0.2%
He now works with Nestle Ghana as Accountant but comes home every two weeks 1
0.1%
Head Teacher 2
0.2%
Head porter 1
0.1%
Heavy Duty Truck driving 1
0.1%
Helping at a chop bar 1
0.1%
Helping husband with coconut farms 1
0.1%
Helps in the manufacturing of hard liquor 1
0.1%
Home Care Aide 1
0.1%
Home caretaker 1
0.1%
House Building 1
0.1%
House builder 2
0.2%
House girl 1
0.1%
House help 2
0.2%
Househelp 4
0.4%
Housekeeper 1
0.1%
I sold soaps, sugar, oil, rice, and other provisions at a stall at home 1
0.1%
I was a customer care officer 1
0.1%
I was a sales girl 1
0.1%
I was a supervisor/manager at a filling station 1
0.1%
I was doing masonry work 1
0.1%
I was driver 1
0.1%
Iligal mining 3
0.3%
Illegal Mining 1
0.1%
Illegal miner 1
0.1%
Illegal mining of gold 1
0.1%
Immigration 2
0.2%
In charge of monitoring operations and supervision services at state gold mining company 1
0.1%
Journalist 2
0.2%
Kayayo 1
0.1%
Kitchen Assistant 1
0.1%
Labor work (weeding of farms) 1
0.1%
Laborer at a mining site 1
0.1%
Laborer at the mining site 1
0.1%
Laborer in a farm 1
0.1%
Laborer in a petroleum company 1
0.1%
Laborer sale of food 1
0.1%
Labour 2
0.2%
Labourer 6
0.7%
Labourer Agricultural farmer Request 1
0.1%
Labourer at Agricultural farmer Request 1
0.1%
Labourer at a factory 1
0.1%
Labourer at a sawmail company 1
0.1%
Labourer at bread bakery 1
0.1%
Labourer at mining site 3
0.3%
Labourer at small scale mining site 1
0.1%
Labourer in farm that grows rubber 1
0.1%
Labourer in mining site 1
0.1%
Labourer mining 1
0.1%
Land Surveyor 1
0.1%
Land demarcation 1
0.1%
Land scape Architect in charge of the parks and gardens at district assembly 1
0.1%
Laying of water pipes for water works 1
0.1%
Loading boy 1
0.1%
Local alcohol distilling. 1
0.1%
Logistics at the Airport 1
0.1%
Looking after the elderly. 1
0.1%
Machine operator 1
0.1%
Maison work 1
0.1%
Maize farming 2
0.2%
Making and selling foot wear 1
0.1%
Making of stools and tables 1
0.1%
Making palm oil 1
0.1%
Mallam and fortune telling 1
0.1%
Mamaging site 1
0.1%
Managing site 2
0.2%
Manufacture and retail sale of palm oil and kenkey 1
0.1%
Manufacture and retail sale of rubber football 1
0.1%
Manufacture and retail sale off rubber football 1
0.1%
Manufacture of food (Kenkey) 1
0.1%
Manufacturing Labourer 1
0.1%
Manufacturing and retailing of boflot 1
0.1%
Manufacturing of Kenkey 2
0.2%
Manufacturing of alcoholic beverages 2
0.2%
Manufacturing of metals 1
0.1%
Mason 6
0.7%
Mason work 1
0.1%
Masonary 1
0.1%
Masonry 8
0.9%
Masonry job(mixing of mortar and concrete) 1
0.1%
Masson 1
0.1%
Mate 4
0.4%
Mechanic 3
0.3%
Mechanical engineering 1
0.1%
Mechanics that is servicing of machines 1
0.1%
Menial jobs 1
0.1%
Menial work (kayoyo) 1
0.1%
Menial work/farming 1
0.1%
Messanger 1
0.1%
Metal works 2
0.2%
Metal works(welding Assistant ) 1
0.1%
Mining 4
0.4%
Mining Laborer 1
0.1%
Mining Operator 1
0.1%
Mining activity 1
0.1%
Mining at illegal mining (galamsey) site 1
0.1%
Mininning 1
0.1%
Minner 2
0.2%
Minning 1
0.1%
Mixing, pouring and spreading materials such as concrete, mortar and plastering 1
0.1%
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (NADMO) 1
0.1%
Motor hiring 1
0.1%
Motorcycle business 1
0.1%
Moulding of blocks 1
0.1%
Moulding of cement blocks 1
0.1%
Moulding of wooden structures for gutter construction. (carpentry) 1
0.1%
Multimedia programmer 1
0.1%
Nurse who takes care of children 1
0.1%
Nursing 2
0.2%
Nutrition Technical officer 3
0.3%
Operating a drinking spot that retails alcoholic beverages 1
0.1%
Package or luggage carrier 1
0.1%
Packaging 1
0.1%
Packaging of soaps at the industry 1
0.1%
Packing of fertilizer sacks 1
0.1%
Packing of logs 1
0.1%
Packing of raw materials for production 1
0.1%
Painter 1
0.1%
Painters, Building Structure Cleaners and Related Trades Workers 1
0.1%
Painting 1
0.1%
Painting and decorating 4
0.4%
Palm harvester 1
0.1%
Palm oil Processing 1
0.1%
Palm wine tapper 1
0.1%
Palm wine tapping 1
0.1%
Palm-wine tapper 2
0.2%
Pastor/preaching 2
0.2%
Peace Keeping mission 1
0.1%
Personal Maid 1
0.1%
Petty trading 2
0.2%
Physiotherapy and Massage 1
0.1%
Pipe laying (construction work) 1
0.1%
Planting maize 1
0.1%
Plastering and painting of buildings 1
0.1%
Plastic Welding 1
0.1%
Police Officer 1
0.1%
Polishing of shoes and repair of torn sandals and slippers [shoe shine] 1
0.1%
Post man/clerk 1
0.1%
Poultry 1
0.1%
Poultry Farming 1
0.1%
Pounding fufu at a chop bar 1
0.1%
Preparation of alcoholic drink (Apeteshie) 1
0.1%
Prison officer 3
0.3%
Production and Selling moringa products 1
0.1%
Production assistant at a manufacturing company 1
0.1%
Project officer 1
0.1%
Provision storekeeper 1
0.1%
Pupil Teacher at the namong LA school 1
0.1%
Pushing truck and selling minerals 1
0.1%
Rearing of chicken 1
0.1%
Receiving and directing calls as well as visitors around the office 1
0.1%
Retail Sale of electrical appliances (Shop Keeper) 1
0.1%
Retail Trading 1
0.1%
Retail of call credit vouchers 1
0.1%
Retail of charcoal 1
0.1%
Retail of clothing 1
0.1%
Retail of fish 1
0.1%
Retail of fruits 1
0.1%
Retail of groceries 1
0.1%
Retail of medicines 1
0.1%
Retail of nuts 1
0.1%
Retail of palm oil 1
0.1%
Retail of palm oil and soap 1
0.1%
Retail of plastics 1
0.1%
Retail of second hand clothing 1
0.1%
Retail of second hand fridges 1
0.1%
Retail sale of bouflof 1
0.1%
Retail sale of bread 2
0.2%
Retail sale of cooked food 1
0.1%
Retail sale of food 1
0.1%
Retail sale of ladies wear and bags 1
0.1%
Retail sale of second-hand clothes 1
0.1%
Retail sales of cars 1
0.1%
Retail trade 1
0.1%
Retail trade of fish and meat 1
0.1%
Retail trade of household consumables in special stall or shopkeeper 1
0.1%
Retailing of banana 1
0.1%
Retailing of clothes 2
0.2%
Retailing of fish on the street 3
0.3%
Retailing of footwear 1
0.1%
Retailing of second hand clothes 1
0.1%
Retailing of vegetables 1
0.1%
Retailing sale of food 1
0.1%
Rubber tapper 1
0.1%
Rubber tapping 1
0.1%
Rubber work 1
0.1%
Sale of Hausa koko 1
0.1%
Sale of charcoal 1
0.1%
Sale of cosmetics (body spray) 1
0.1%
Sale of fish 1
0.1%
Sale of food 2
0.2%
Sale of minerals 1
0.1%
Sale of minerals on a pushing truck 1
0.1%
Sale of prepared food 1
0.1%
Sale of second hand clothing 5
0.6%
Sale of spare parts 2
0.2%
Sales girl 1
0.1%
Sales of provisions 1
0.1%
Sales person 2
0.2%
Sales personnel 1
0.1%
Sales worker 1
0.1%
Salesman 1
0.1%
Salesperson 4
0.4%
Sawmill Machine Operating 1
0.1%
Sawyer 3
0.3%
Seamstress 2
0.2%
Security 7
0.8%
Security Guard 1
0.1%
Selling 1
0.1%
Selling cooked food 1
0.1%
Selling fish 3
0.3%
Selling food 2
0.2%
Selling fresh fish 1
0.1%
Selling kibbab 1
0.1%
Selling of Plantain 1
0.1%
Selling of ball loaf 1
0.1%
Selling of bread 1
0.1%
Selling of cement 1
0.1%
Selling of clothes 1
0.1%
Selling of filling station 1
0.1%
Selling of food 5
0.6%
Selling of food (banku and fufu) 1
0.1%
Selling of food products and vegetables 1
0.1%
Selling of foodstuffs 1
0.1%
Selling of footwear 1
0.1%
Selling of frozen meat 1
0.1%
Selling of hand bags 1
0.1%
Selling of kenkey 1
0.1%
Selling of meatpie 2
0.2%
Selling of minerals 1
0.1%
Selling of oil 1
0.1%
Selling of oranges 1
0.1%
Selling of pastries on the street 1
0.1%
Selling of plates and cutlery 1
0.1%
Selling of provision 1
0.1%
Selling of provisions 3
0.3%
Selling of pure water 1
0.1%
Selling of rice water 1
0.1%
Selling of second hand clothes 1
0.1%
Selling of second hand goods 1
0.1%
Selling of shoes 1
0.1%
Selling of soft drinks 1
0.1%
Selling of wheat 1
0.1%
Selling palm oil 1
0.1%
Selling roasted meat kibbab 1
0.1%
Selll 1
0.1%
Sells call credit 1
0.1%
Sells cooked Food at a bar 1
0.1%
Sells fish 2
0.2%
Sells fuel 1
0.1%
Sells furniture, doors 1
0.1%
Sells rice 1
0.1%
Sells second hand clothing 1
0.1%
Service 1
0.1%
Services 1
0.1%
Sewing 1
0.1%
Sewing of clothes 1
0.1%
Sewing of men's clothing 1
0.1%
Shoemaker 1
0.1%
Shop Attendant 2
0.2%
Shop Keeper 4
0.4%
Shop Manager 2
0.2%
Shop Salesperson 1
0.1%
Shop and sales attendant of a stationary shop 1
0.1%
Shop attendant 1
0.1%
Shop attendant (wood processing) 1
0.1%
Shop helper 1
0.1%
Shop keeper 3
0.3%
Shop keeper (Selling of provisions) 1
0.1%
Shop keeping 1
0.1%
Shope attendant 1
0.1%
Small scale mining 1
0.1%
Small scale mining [galamsey] 4
0.4%
Smoking and retailing of fish (fishmonger) 1
0.1%
Smoking and selling fish in the market 1
0.1%
Smoking of fish 1
0.1%
Spraying of cars 1
0.1%
Stall and Market salesperson(Sale of Provisions) 1
0.1%
Steel Bending 1
0.1%
Stocking of shelves in a drug production factory. 1
0.1%
Store Sales agent 1
0.1%
Store keeper 1
0.1%
Street Food Salesperson 1
0.1%
Street food vendor 1
0.1%
Street vendor excluding food 1
0.1%
Subsistence Farming 27
3%
Superviser 1
0.1%
Supervisor 1
0.1%
Surveyer (technical forest guard) 1
0.1%
Tailor 1
0.1%
Tailoring 4
0.4%
Takes care of hospital patients 1
0.1%
Taking care off people's pigs 1
0.1%
Tapping of palm fruits 1
0.1%
Tarazzo casting 1
0.1%
Tax auditor 3
0.3%
Tax(Revenue) collector 1
0.1%
Teacher 1
0.1%
Teacher at the local authority school [middle school] 1
0.1%
Teaches at Training College of Education 1
0.1%
Teaching 31
3.5%
Teaching French in a basic school 1
0.1%
Teaching JHS pupil 1
0.1%
Teaching JHS pupils 1
0.1%
Teaching Professional 2
0.2%
Teaching and impacting knowledge to pupils Giving and marking of assignments and exams Monitoring the academic improvement of his pupils 1
0.1%
Teaching in a secondary school 1
0.1%
Teaching jhs pupils 1
0.1%
Teleclerk(Assistant store keeper) 1
0.1%
Textile, Fur and Leather Products Machine Operators Not Elsewhere Classified 1
0.1%
Timber logging 1
0.1%
Tomatoes farming 1
0.1%
Tractor Plowing 1
0.1%
Trade 1
0.1%
Trade of water 1
0.1%
Trade unionists 1
0.1%
Tradind 1
0.1%
Trading 5
0.6%
Trading, buying and selling 1
0.1%
Transport passengers, materials or goods 1
0.1%
Transporting Blocks Labourer 1
0.1%
Travel attendance and conductor 1
0.1%
Van driver 1
0.1%
Waiter 2
0.2%
Waitress 4
0.4%
Waitress at a restaurant 1
0.1%
Was a lady pastor 1
0.1%
Was a offsider 1
0.1%
Was doing Mason work 1
0.1%
Was in the construction industry (Mason work) 1
0.1%
Washes dishes 1
0.1%
Washing and cleaning of cars 1
0.1%
Washing of Cooking Utensils 1
0.1%
Washing of gold 1
0.1%
Washing of plates and cooking utensils at eating joint [chop bar] 1
0.1%
Watchman 1
0.1%
Weaving Kente cloth 1
0.1%
Weeding and clearing of lands for farming activities 1
0.1%
Weeding/ menial work 1
0.1%
Welder 3
0.3%
Welding 4
0.4%
Wholesale of second hand clothing 1
0.1%
Wielding 1
0.1%
Wiring and Mason 1
0.1%
Wood Processing( sawmill) 1
0.1%
Wood Treater 1
0.1%
Wood calving 1
0.1%
Wood cutting labourer 1
0.1%
Wood processing plant operator 1
0.1%
Worked as a Messenger for Ghana cocoa board 1
0.1%
Worked as a bus driver at the state transport company [stc] 1
0.1%
Worked as a contributing worker and care taker on someone's cocoa farmer 1
0.1%
Worked as a driver for the state transport company 1
0.1%
Worked as a laborer at clothing manufacturing company 1
0.1%
Worked as a laborer at state housing company 1
0.1%
Worked as a laborer for a water company incharge of digging pipelines 1
0.1%
Worked as a pupil teacher at Aboabo No 1 LA primary school 1
0.1%
Worked in a maize farm as a contributing worker 1
0.1%
Working on palm plantation 1
0.1%
timber logs work at the harbour 1
0.1%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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