The Ghana Statistical Service has announced a seven-day mop-up in the ongoing 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) to complete work in the outstanding enumeration areas as only North East Region recorded the highest with 97 percent as at 12th day of the exercise.
The mop-up exercise will run from Monday, July 12 to Sunday, July 18, and Members who have not been counted have been asked to contact the Census call center on the toll-free number: 0800426426 or on 0591476893, 0591476895, 059476884, and 020685015.
The additional days for mop-up enumeration will be in areas -such as the Greater Accra, Central, Eastern, and Western regions.
Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, who announced the mop-up at a press briefing in Accra, said 80 percent of data on the expected households had been received as of the 12th day of the enumeration.
The conduct of the census is by the Statistical Service Law, 1985 (PNDCL 135), which empowers the Government Statistician to conduct statistical surveys and any census in Ghana.
Ghana conducted its first census in 1891, during British colonial rule. It has, since independence, conducted five censuses — 1960, 1970, 1984, and 2000, with the most recent one being the 2010 census, which said Ghana’s population then was 24.7 million.
A population census is a priority national development program, as it anchors all national development interventions, given its unique attribute of capturing data on all persons in a country.
The Ghana 2021 PHC will consist of a population census and a housing census as one operation. The two censuses, though separate, constitute one statistical operation and they are not completely independent of each other because of the essential elements of each census which are common to both and are also with well-coordinated activities.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
