Abstract

The GLSS collected detailed information on the following topics: demographic characteristics of the population, education, health, employment, time use, migration, housing conditions and household agriculture. Consequently section four of the GLSS 6 addressed and collected information on the labor issues. It was expanded to address more representative sampling and possibly additional indicators pertaining to the northern savannah ecological zone, where a major government of Ghana initiative on Savannah Accelerated Development (SADA) had just commenced. The survey was spread over a 12-month period in order to ensure a continuous recording of household consumption, expenditures and changes occurring thereof. The specific objectives of the survey were as follows: 1. To provide information on patterns of household's consumption and expenditure at a lower level of disaggregation. 2. To serve as the basis for the construction of a new basket for the next rebasing of the Consumer Price Index. 3. To provide information for updating national accounts. 4. To provide information on household access and use of financial services. 5. To provide information that will enable credible comparison between growth rates in the northern savannah ecological zone and those in the south of Ghana. 6. To provide information on the systematic monitoring of the extent of poverty reduction in the northern savannah ecological zone. 7. Estimate the number of persons in the labor force (employed, underemployed and unemployed) and their distribution by sex, major age groups, educational level, geographical and rural/ urban spread, as well as the ecological manifestations of these, in particular, the northern savannah ecological zone which is a known source of migrant and child labor. 8. Estimate the number of child workers (or children in employment) aged 5-17 years, and its distribution by sex, major age groups, educational status, geographical, ecological and rural/urban spread, etc. 9. For both adult workers and children in employment, their distribution by status in employment, occupation and industry, as well as weekly hours worked, location of place of work, earnings, occupational injury and hazards at the work place, contractual status, informal / formal sector employment, etc. 10. Provide benchmark data needed for progress monitoring of labor policies, programs and law-making. 11. Provide up-to-date information for assessing the child labor and labor force situation. 12. Provide current child labor and labor force indicators. 13. Provide data needed for monitoring progress towards the elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labor (WFCL). 14. Estimate the prevalence of child labor (as distinct from 'children in employment' of which child labor is a subset). 15. Identify the causes and consequences of child labor in terms of socio-economic factors. 16. Establish a national database on decent work indicators, including LF and CL statistics. 17. Strengthen technical capacity of GLSS in the design and implementation of such surveys. 18. Help set targets and priorities in the fight against child labor. 19. Assess the nature and extent of child labor.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

• Household
• Indivdual
• Community

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sixth round of the GLSS like the previous rounds was designed to provide nationally and regionally representative indicators. It applied the same sampling methodology, a two-stage sampling procedure. In the first stage 1,200 enumeration areas (EA's) consisting of 655 (54.6%) rural EA's and 545 (45.4%) urban EA's were selected based on the 2010 Population and Housing Census, with probability proportional to size (number of households). At the second stage a fixed number of about 1,800 households were selected by systematic sampling within each of the selected enumeration areas. The fieldwork lasted twelve months and was divided into 10 cycles of 35 days. Thirty teams were involved in the data collection.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The GLSS was comprised of the following questionnaires: 1. Household questionnaire Part A 2. Household questionnaire Part B 3. Non- farm enterprise questionnaire 4. Rural community questionnaire 5. Price questionnaire

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