Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey 2018-2019, Wave 3
Ghana, 2018 - 2019
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- 00_hh_info
- 01a_consent
- 01b2_newroster
- 01b2_preroster
- 01b2_roster
- 01d_background
- 01ei_ravens
- 01eii_fluency
- 01eiii_math
- 01eiv_nepsy
- 01ev_digitspan
- 01evi_english
- 01evii_anthropometry
- 01eviii_consumption
- 01fa_employmentscreener
- 01fii_employmentsecondary
- 01fiii_unemployed
- 01gi_generaleducation
- 01gii_edcareer
- 01giii_literacy
- 01hi_immigration
- 01hii_migrationhistory
- 02a_nr_relatives_newroster
- 02a_nr_relatives_preroster
- 02a_nr_relatives_questions
- 02a_nr_relatives_roster
- 02b_nr_spouses_newroster
- 02b_nr_spouses_preroster
- 02b_nr_spouses_questions
- 02b_nr_spouses_roster
- 03ai_animalquestions
- 03ai_animalquestions_osp
- 03aii_toolquestions
- 03aii_toolquestions_osp
- 03aiii_durablegoodquestions
- 03aiii_durablegoodquestions_osp
- 03bi_borrowingquestions
- 03bia_borrowingquestions
- 03bii_lendingquestions
- 03biii_outtransfersquestions
- 03biv_intransfersquestions
- 03biv_intransfersquestions_org
- 03bv_savingquestions
- 04_plotroster
- 04h_agsection
- 04i_landtenure
- 04j_tracploughuse
- 04k_seedquestions
- 04l_chemquestions
- 04l_inputs
- 04m_aglabourquestions
- 04n_harvestquestions
- 04nn_gatheringquestions
- 04o_cropsalesstoresquestions
- 04o_cropsalesstoresservices
- 05_bizsection
- 05ai_basicinfo
- 05aii_assetquestions
- 05aii_assetquestions_osp
- 05bi_allemployees
- 05bii_fourimportantquestions
- 06a_insurance
- 06c_immunization
- 06d_dailyliving
- 06e_miscellaneous
- 06f_past2weeks
- 06g_past12months
- 07a_fertility
- 07b_power
- 08a_reprohealth
- 08b_power
- 09a_youngchildhealth
- 10_determine_respondents
- 10ai_depression
- 10aii_subjectivesocialwelfare
- 10aiv_townsend
- 10av_trust
- 10avi_careforkids
- 10avi_timeuseloop
- 10bii_riskpreferences
- 10c_socialnetworkingquestions
- 10di_binteractionsquestions
- 10dii_mediaextensionsquestions
- 10diii_volunteer_questions
- 11a_foodconsumption_give
- 11a_foodconsumption_prod_purch
- 11b_clothingquestions
- 11c_otheritems
- 11d_fuelconsumptionquestions
- 12a_housingcharacteristics1i_rent
- 12a_housingcharacteristics1ii_utilities
- 12a_housingcharacteristics1iii_structure
- 12a_measure
- 12a_measurements
- 12b_housingcharacteristics2
- commtype
- outtransfersquestions
Other - specify (fallowwhyother)
Data file: 04h_agsection
Overview
Valid:
265
Type:
Discrete
Width:
199
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged now | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Bamboo has taken over that portion | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Because he is growing old and can't farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Because of old age she is now weak | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Behind time schedule | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Borrowed | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Build on the other side of the plot | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Burnt | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Convenience | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Convenience, it's a part time alo g side the teaching | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Crop was over grown | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Crops does not grow well | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Crops does not grow well there | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Decided to focus on the first plot | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Didn't have access to it at that time | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Didn't have enough money | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Didn't have money to plough | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Didnt have the strength to Cultivate Whole. Plot | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Dispute over land | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Do not have enough money to plough all the 8 acres | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Do not have the strength and money to support in making whole land | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Does not have enough money to cultivate. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Doesn't have the ability to farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Don't have enough money | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Don't have much strength | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Don't have the strength | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Don't really have the time to start cultivating on the plot | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Due to poor weather patterns that has always brought about poor yield in previous seasons | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Failed Crops | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Family Reason | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Family land | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Family land can not farm all | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Family land so don't have to cultivate all | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Financial Constrains | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Financial constraints | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Financial issues | 3 |
1.1%
|
|
| Financial problem | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Flood | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Flood(water took over the plot) | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Flooding | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| For another project | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Gave it out to a friend | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Got the land a year ago | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Had access to the plot this year | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Had no strength to cultivate | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Had not begged to use it yet | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Had to build my house and take care of my daughter after a room collapsed on her | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Had traveled | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Have Intention to Cultivate | 5 |
1.9%
|
|
| Have an Intention to Cultivate | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Have been occupied with a wage employment for the past three (3) years. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Have plans to cultivate in the coming years | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Have plans to cultivate in the coming years and it's capital intensive | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Have plans to cultivate in the subsequent years | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| He was seriously ill for sometime and could not farm for 3 years. Did not have enough strength to farm and no money to hire labor. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Health Conditions | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Health issues | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Health problem | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Health problem and financial constraints | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Health reasons | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Health related issues | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I am not fit for farming any longer. I can't stand on my legs to weed. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I didn't have enough strength and the portion had more gravels | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I didn't have much strength to farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I do not have the strength to farm because of old age | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I farmed on the plot during the 2016 farming season but the whole plot was burnt by the fulani herdsmen as soon as I cultivated my crops so I decided not to farm on it during the 2017 farming season | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I have moved from there | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I used to do illegal mining but when that business came down, then I went into farming. So I decided to cultivate just 2 acres | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I was a nursing mother (had new born baby) | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I was around | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I was not healthy and doctors adviced me not to farm. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I was somewhat unhealthy. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I was too ill to farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I was very sick | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I was very sick and couldn't farm last year | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I wouldn't cultivate all | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| I'll health | 4 |
1.5%
|
|
| I'll. Health | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Ill health | 5 |
1.9%
|
|
| Ill health last season | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Ill health, | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Ill health. My hand was swollen | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Ill-health | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Illness | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Improper sharing of crops | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| In a mashi area | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Incapacitated due to ill health | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Intend to Cultivate | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| It was a new plot | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Just acquired it in 2018 | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Just rented | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Just started farming on it | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Just using as subsistence farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Knee injury/ Accident | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Lack of Capital. Respondent said she is old and can't farm and children too have refused farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Lack of capital | 3 |
1.1%
|
|
| Lack of cassava sticks | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Lack of finance | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Lack of financial recourse. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Lack of funds | 9 |
3.4%
|
|
| Lack of money | 17 |
6.4%
|
|
| Lack of rains | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Lack of strength and good health | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Lack of time | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Land not good for farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Land too big, he's cultivating it step by step | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Law of capital | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Left to for the care taker to cultivate during the next season | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Mashi area | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Mining area | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Moved outside the community | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| No cash | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| No funds | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| No money | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| No money to cultivate the land | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| No money to cultivate the rest | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| No money to farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| No money to plough | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| No money to plough both acres | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| No reason | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Not enough rain | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Not having enough money | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Not healthy enough to farm | 4 |
1.5%
|
|
| Not interested in farming at the moment | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Now has access to the plot | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Now has the right to farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Occupied with household business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Occupied with household non farm business | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Occupy by household duties | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Old Age | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Old age | 4 |
1.5%
|
|
| Only begged for it this year | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| People have encroached it | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Personal reason | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Personal reasons | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Plans to Cultivate | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Planted cashew on that land | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Portion of the land was flooded with water | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Preparing it for the new season | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Recently acquired | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Reserve for food | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Reserve for next season | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Rocky | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| She is not healthy enough to cultivate it. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Sick | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Sickness | 5 |
1.9%
|
|
| So that I can use it grow food stuffs | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Some part of the land was left to be cultivated In the subsequent years | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Step by step | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| That part of the land is waterlogged | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| That side is not fertile | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| The crops grown there didn't survive | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| The crops planted some years ago didn't survive on the land | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| The land is flooded by water so for some years now he has not actually farm | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| The land was not in my care then | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| The remaining land is clayey | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| They were not in [PII] at the time and did have the funds to employ someone to farm it for them. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Time factor | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Tiredness and lack of fund for labour | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| To be used for planting at another time | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| To fallow | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| To pay debt | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Too far from her village. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Too much rainfall | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Too old | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Travelled | 2 |
0.8%
|
|
| Trees planted | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Very ill | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Waiting for the crops grown on it during 2016 to grow to a good level | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Waiting for the first crops grown on the plot to get to a certain level | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Waiting to grow rubber on it | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Want to do rubber plantation sometime later | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Want to reserve soil | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Wanted to acquire documents on the land before | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was busy | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was busy so couldn't have goten time | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was busy through out the year | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was late so I tried avoiding rain inconsistency that might lead to poor yield | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was not | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was not interested in farming | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was not owner. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was out of the community due to the conflict | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was out of town | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was sick | 7 |
2.6%
|
|
| Was sick and recovering | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was sick and recovering. | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was sick from 2016. Just recovered | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was sick last year (last farming season) | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Was too ill | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Wasn't feeling well to cultivate all 5 poles | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Wasn't having access to land yet | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Water log | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| We've now started working on the land | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Will cultivate in the coming years | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Will give it out | 1 |
0.4%
|
|
| Yam sets were burnt | 1 |
0.4%
|
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.