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‘2021 Population and Housing Census will depend heavily on technology’

  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 fr...

705 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 nat...

Ghana Statistical Service begins Training of Master Trainers 14th Dec 2020    |    Source: GNA Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has begun the last phase of training for Master Trainers for the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) in Winneba. The in-person training workshop on Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) would run for 8 days, from 9th to 16th December 2020. It follows a nine-day virtual training programme, which was held between 23rd November and 3rd December 2020. A statement from the GSS said the CAPI training was necessary because the upcoming 2021 PHC, which is...