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Synthetic GLSS survey data
Description
This data set is synthetically generated from real GLSS (Ghana Living Standards Survey) data.
Format
A data frame with 36970 observations on the following 14 variables.
- hhid
integer; the household ID.
- hsize
integer; the number of persons in the household.
- region
factor; the region in which the household is located (levels
western
,central
,greater accra
,volta
,eastern
,ashanti
,brong ahafo
,northern
,upper east
andupper west
).- clust
factor; the enumeration area.
- age
integer; the person's age.
- sex
factor; the person's sex (levels
male
andfemale
).- relate
factor; the relationship with the household head (levels
head
,spouse
,child
,grandchild
,parent/parentlaw
,son/daughterlaw
,other relative
,adopted child
,househelp
andnon_relative
).- nation
factor; the person's nationality (levels
ghanaian birth
,ghanaian naturalise
,burkinabe
,malian
,nigerian
,ivorian
,togolese
,liberian
,other ecowas
,other africa
andother
).- ethnic
factor; the person's ethnicity (levels
akan
,all other tribes
,ewe
,ga-dangbe
,grusi
,guan
,gurma
,mande
andmole-dagbani
).- religion
factor; the person's religion (levels
catholic
,anglican
,presbyterian
,methodist
,pentecostal
,spiritualist
,other christian
,moslem
,traditional
,no religion
andother
).- highest_degree
factor; the person's highest degree of education (levels
none
,mlsc
,bece
,voc/comm
,teacher trng a
,teacher trng b
,gce 'o' level
,ssce
,gce 'a' level
,tech/prof cert
,tech/prof dip
,hnd
,bachelor
,masters
,doctorate
andother
).- occupation
factor; the person's occupation (levels
armed forces and other security personnel
,clerks
,craft and related trades workers
,elementary occupations
,legislators, senior officials and managers
,none
,plant and machine operators and assemblers
,professionals
,service workers and shop and market sales workers
,skilled agricultural and fishery workers
, andtechnicians and associate professionals
).- income
numeric; the person's annual income.
- weight
numeric; the sample weights.
Details
The data set consists of 8700 households and is used as sample data in some
of the examples in package simPopulation
. Note that it is included
for illustrative purposes only. The sample weights do not reflect the true
population sizes of Ghana and its regions. The resulting population data is
about 100 times smaller than the real population size to save computation
time.
Only some of the variables in the original survey are included in this example data set. Furthermore, categories are aggregated for certain variables due to the large number of possible outcomes in the original survey data.
Source
This is a synthetic data set based on GLSS data from 2006. The original sample was provided by Ghana Statistical Service.
References
Ghana Statistical Service (2008) Ghana Living Standards Survey: Report of the fifth round.
Examples
data(ghanaS)
summary(ghanaS)