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Journalists and Media Houses have been cautioned to verify their information about the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), before publishing such information.
Professor Samuel Kubina Annim, Government Statistician and also the Chief Census Officer, gave the advice at a day’s training workshop his out-fit organized at Winneba for selected journalists from the southern sector on “Media Relations on the forthcoming PHC”.
Journalists in the northern and the middle zones have already benefited from the training.
The participants were drawn from Volta, Eastern, Central, Western and Grater Accra Regions and the facilitators were Mr. Emmanuel George Ossei, Head of the National Census Secretariat, Mr. Owusu Kagya, Head of Census Methodology and Mr. William Addo, Publicity, Education and Advocacy.
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The Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, has charged master trainers and enumerators to be engaged during the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) to help provide accurate and reliable data for national development planning.
He said such accurate information was essential as it would provide a unique opportunity for the government to distribute resources and facilities in line with the nation’s annual population growth.
The government statistician said “collecting data at the disaggregated level will enable the government and other policy makers to do annual national projections in all sectors of the economy as well as to properly understand the growth of the economy”.
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