Ghana Statistical Service to release results for 2021 census this week
Provisional results of the 2021 Population and Housing Census is scheduled to be made public this week.
This will be the first time the Ghana Statistical Service will be releasing results three months after the exercise and the GSS have attributed this to the digitization of the census process.
According to the Government Statistician Prof Samuel Anim in the release of the document, there are six core products and eight other products that are going to be released.
He indicated that they are going to commence these releases with the results that will be released on September 22, 2021, which will give the provisional figures that they have so far seen from the 2021 Population and Housing Census.
Prof Anim further said, “this will be followed by a residential proximity to essential services report which has been scheduled for the 18th of October 2021, and in this report, we are gonna get a sense of how residential units are clustered amongst themselves, how farther away they are from essential services and across essential services, how they are farther away.”
He revealed that November is African Statistics Day which will be marked with a week-long activity, where the final and detailed figures for the 2021 Population and Housing Census will be released. This release will contain final figures in terms of the data that have been collected and the information gotten from the post enumeration survey
Prof Samuel Anim also indicated that the service will engage MMDCEs and other stakeholders to disseminate the findings.
“The GSS is going to run concurrent sections where we are going to release our thematic reports, we are going to release our analytical reports,” he said.
“We are going to put out our census data which will essentially give us a geography analysis both from a static and a dynamic point of view. And these activities he revealed are going to run over a two year period and we he is very sure they are going to have further engagements with Ministries, Departments, and Agencies as well as the MMDA’s to get into details on the data that we need for our development.”
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
