Transcript David Yenukwa Kombat Ghana Statistical Service Background  Ghana has conducted five population census since independence in 1957 : 1960, 1970, 1984, 2000

David Yenukwa Kombat
Ghana Statistical Service
Background
 Ghana has conducted five population census since
independence in 1957 : 1960, 1970, 1984, 2000 and
2010.
 Face-to-face interview with a paper questionnaire was
used to collect information in all the censuses
 The Ghana Statistical Service has the mandate to
undertake a population census in Ghana
 All officials of the Ghana Statistical Service (both
permanent and non-permanent) are required by Law
to swear an oath of secrecy
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Objectives of the 2010 Census
Objectives of the Ghana 2010 Population and Housing
Census was to:
 Provide up- to-dated data on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the population at national,
regional, district and locality levels for policy making,
planning and administration and research
 Provide data to the Electoral Commission for revising
electoral areas and constituencies for purposes of elections
 Provide data to Government for equitable distribution of
national resources and government services
 Provide data for tracking the progress of poverty reduction
programmes including the achievement of the MDGs
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Selection of Census topics (core)
Topics were selected after consultations with relevant
stakeholders taking into consideration recommendations
from the Principles and Recommendations for conduct of
Population and Housing Censuses for the 2010 round.
The following core topics were included in the census:
 Geographical and internal migration characteristics
-Place where present at the time of the census (census
night)
-Place of birth
-Duration of residence
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Core topics cont’d
 International migration characteristics
-Country of birth
-Nationality/citizenship
 Household characteristics
-Relationship to head of household
 Demographic and social characteristics
- Age and sex
-Marital status
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Core topics cont’d
 Fertility and mortality
-children ever born
-children surviving
-household deaths in the past 12 months and cause of
death (was death due to accident, violence, homicide or suicide)
** age at death, sex of deceased
**For females aged 12-54 years at time of death, a
question was asked as to whether the death occurred
whilst pregnant, during delivery, or within 6 weeks
after the end of a pregnancy or child birth.
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Core topics cont’d
 Educational characteristics
-Literacy
-school attendance
-educational attainment
 Economic activity
-Economic activity status
- Occupation
-Industry
-Employment status
Disability status-whether any household member(s) had any
serious disability, for example, visual impairment, hearing
impairment, etc.
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Housing core topics
 Housing
-type of dwelling, materials used for construction of outer
wall of dwellings, tenancy arrangement, ownership type,
number of rooms household occupy, main source of lighting,
main source of water supply for drinking and for other use,
main source of cooking fuel, cooking space/kitchen, bathing
and toilet facilities, waste disposal (solid and liquid),
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Non core topics
 Religion
 Ethnicity
 Sector of employment
 Number of bedrooms
 Construction materials of floor and roof of dwelling
units
 Agriculture
-Involvement of any household member in any form of
agricultural activity and type of agricultural activity
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Difficulties in implementing some of
the topics
 Ethnicity and religious issues
 Issues relating to mortality questions- it is not an event
household members usually want to remember
 Disability
– some households refusing to report on disable members
of their households especially those with multiple
disabilities.
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Other challenges
 Administrative boundary disputes
 Inaccessibility of some communities-islands, flooding, no
access roads, etc.- some of it probably due to the period of
the enumeration (September rather than March which was
used in previous censuses)
 Large enumeration areas
 Problems associated with data capture
-questionnaires were printing by different printers (inferior
quality paper used by some of the printers)
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Addressing the challenges
 Series of consultative meetings were held with
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religious/ethnic groups to resolve the issues
GSS worked with the Local Government Ministry, the
Electoral Commission and Survey Department to resolve
administrative boundary disputes
Enumeration in flooded communities handled after the
floods had subsided; extra field personnel mobilised to
enumerate un-enumerated communities.
Ethnicity codes were revised to address the ethnic concerns
Households encouraged to report on all disable persons in
their households
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Release of results/reports
 Provisional results-February, 2011
 Summary of final results-May, 2012
 National Analytical Report, May, 2013
 Regional Analytical Reports, September, 2013
 With support from Developments Partners, monographs
on the Elderly, Women and Men, MDGs, Non-Monetary
Poverty, Education and Literacy, Children/Adolescents and
Youth and Population Projections have been prepared
 Census Atlas, June, 2013
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Preparation of Reports
 Preparations are being made to prepare the following
monographs:
-Economic activities
-Fertility
-Migration
-Urbanisation
-Disability
-Housing
-Mortality
UNDP, UNFPA and JICA are supporting in the preparation of
four out of the seven monographs. GSS is yet to get funding for
the remaining three monographs, i.e. Migration, Housing and
Mortality.
CIDA and DANIDA are supporting GSS with funds to prepare
District Analytical Reports.
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Information on the publications can be obtained from
Ghana Statistical Service website:www.statsghana.gov.gh
Thank you
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