Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey 2013-2014, Wave 2 - Ghana

Abstract
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The Ghana Socioeconomic panel household survey is a joint effort between the Economic Growth Center at Yale University and the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research at Legon (Accra, 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 project, 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.

The data from the second wave of the Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey covered a sample of 4,774 households containing 16,356 household members. The second wave was unique in the sense that it tracked movement of households as well as individual within a household. Thus increasing the number of households in the Panel Study due to the nature of the design; tracking wholly moved and split households. A total of 5484 households were selected for the survey comprising of 5009 households from the baseline survey and 475 households from split of households created of which 4774 households were successfully interviewed.

Geographic coverage
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The survey provides regionally representative data for the 10 regions of Ghana.

Analysis unit
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Households and individuals

Kind of data
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Sample survey data

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face Interviews

Research instrument
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The Household Questionnaire for the survey was in two parts, A and B. Questionnaire Part A collected data on household members and Questionnaire Part B collected data on the household and dwelling.

摘要
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加纳社会经济面板家庭调查是由耶鲁大学经济增长中心与加纳莱贡（阿克拉，加纳）统计、社会和经济研究所共同发起的一项联合项目。
本调查旨在弥补对低收入国家发展理解的主要限制——即缺乏详细、多层次和长期科学的追踪数据，这些数据随时间追踪个体，并描述个体居住的自然和建成环境。大多数数据收集工作都是短期性的——仅在某一时间点进行；在范围上受限——仅收集关于研究个体生活少数方面的信息；在多次数据收集过程中，离开研究区域的个体会被排除在外。这一后者意味着最具流动性的人群并未包含在现有的调查和研究之中，可能严重地偏颇了对谁从发展过程中受益以及谁承担了发展成本推断。因此，本项目的目标，即通过一套全面的调查工具随时间追踪所有个体或随机子集，旨在为长期经济发展过程提供新的洞察。
加纳社会经济面板调查的第二波数据涵盖了4,774个家庭的样本，包含16,356名家庭成员。第二波调查的独特之处在于它追踪了家庭以及家庭内个体的流动。因此，由于设计性质，调查中家庭面板的数量因此而增加；追踪完全搬迁和分裂的家庭。调查共选择了5,484个家庭，其中5,009个家庭来自基线调查，475个家庭来自分裂的家庭。共有4,774个家庭成功接受了访谈。
地理覆盖范围
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调查为加纳的10个地区提供了区域代表性的数据。
分析单位
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家庭和个人
数据类型
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样本调查数据
数据收集方式
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面对面访谈
研究工具
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调查的家庭问卷分为两部分，A和B。问卷部分A收集了家庭成员的数据，问卷部分B收集了家庭和住宅的数据。