Following the pattern set in the first two rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS), the questionnaire used for the third round again covered a wide spectrum of topics such as education, health, housing, employment, income and expenditure, which affect the living standards of households. GLSS III thus provides data on various aspects of Ghanaian household economic and social activities, which are of help for monitoring the impact of the Government's Economic Recovery Programme.
GLSS III differed from the two previous rounds, however, in concentrating particularly on the income, consumption and expenditure of households at a much more disaggregated level than previously. As a result, GLSS III provides more accurate estimates of income and expenditure, including the imputed value of home produced food which is consumed by households. The data on household expenditure are also being used to derive the weights needed for rebasing the Consumer Price Index. The GLSS data on income, consumption and expenditure, together with other individual, household and community level data collected in GLSS III, will also provide a valuable database for national and regional planning purposes. Detailed anthropometric data had been collected in GLSS I and GLSS II, involving the need to include an anthropometrist in each survey team. This topic had to be dropped from GLSS III, so that the expanded income, consumption and expenditure data could be collected.