Household Appliance Ownership and Electricity Consumption in Ghana

• Daniel Kwabena Twerefou - University of Ghana - Department of Economics

• University of Gothenburg

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• Housing unit

The data was collected at the household level, and respondents are representatives of households.

• Cross-section

• Probability

The data contains a survey undertaken in three regions of Ghana: Greater Accra, Ashanti and the Northern regions to represent the Coastal, Forest and Savannah Zones respectively. We adopt a sampling design by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) used for the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS). Based on the design, the GSS has listed rural and urban Enumeration Areas (EAs) in all the regions. We proportionally allocate the EAs to the regions sampled based on rural-urban stratification. Systematically, 20 households were selected from each EA following the ordered sampling frame. Consequently, 28, 19 and 8 urban EAs were interviewed in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern regions respectively while the figures for the rural areas were 3, 12 and 11 for the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern regions respectively. Households in the EAs were located with the help of the household listing undertaken by the GSS containing the names, addresses and Global Positioning System location of all households within the EAs. We submitted all the data collection instruments and protocols for approval by the University of Ghana Ethics Committee for Humanities before going to the field

• 2022-04-16 - 2022-05-12

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Interview

The questionnaire instrument was coded in Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) and enumerators visited each household to conduct the interview. After each day's activity, the overseer goes through the reported data to identify any errors. If errors are detected, the enumerator re-visits the household the next day to collect the appropriate data.

2022-04-16 - 2022-05-12

• Research data

• Ghana

Three regions of Ghana: Greater Accra, Ashanti and the Northern Regions were selected to represent the Coastal, Forest and Savannah Zones respectively for the survey. Following the sampling design by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) which is used for the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS), we proportionally allocate the Enumeration Areas (EAs) to the regions sampled based on rural-urban stratification. Systematically, 20 households were selected from each EA following the ordered sampling frame. Consequently, 28, 19 and 8 urban EAs were interviewed in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern Regions respectively while the figures for the rural areas were 3, 12 and 11 for the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern Regions respectively.

Region

Environment for Development, School of Business Economics and Law

Other - ECH 284/21-22

University of Ghana

• Social sciences
• Economics

• Electrical energy consumption
• Heads of household
• Electrical equipment

• Environment for Development