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The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has projected a population of around 31 million people during its 14-day Population and Housing Census (PHC) scheduled for 2021.
Accordingly, he has instructed the officers who will participate in the exercise to be aware of the enormity of the task before them and to be up to the task.
Carrying out the census is in accordance with the objectives of the GSS of providing quality, pertinent, accurate and timely statistical information (Data) for national development, as stipulated in Clause 3 of the Statistical Service Law. 2019 (Law 1003).
Government statistician Professor Samuel Kobina Annim called for the closure of an eight-day training for 108 teacher trainers in Winneba.
The last phase of the face-to-face training organized by the GSS after a series of virtual engagements with the master trainers, was to prepare them to train enumerators, supervisors and many others for the start of APS next year.
Professor Annim asked the trainers to play key roles in achieving the goals of the national census, adding that “everyone will be counted once at the right time and place.”
He listed some of the priority areas to focus on to include; contextualizing the training to suit different parts of the country and highlighted that integrity and honesty must be maintained at all levels of their engagement with other trainers and field officers.
“Remember that it is important that public confidence in census data is critical and you must ensure that it is achieved,” he said.
The Chief of Census Methodology, Mr. Owusu Kagya, stated that the country needed quality data to facilitate its development and that the census was intended to provide the required data, and urged officials to do whatever it takes to make it possible.
The Co-Chair of the National Census Technical Advisory Committee, Professor Kofi Awusabo-Asare, explained that censuses provided the source of good quality and reliable data for planning, which were the basis for achieving the national goal.
He urged them to collect good quality data so that the public has confidence in the system.
Professors and doctors from the academy of the Regional Institute for Population Studies of the University of Ghana and the Department of Population and Health of the University of Cape Coast are the reviewers of the APS 2021 curriculum.
Among the personalities who attended the ceremony are; Ms. Araba Forson, Acting Government Statistician in Charge of Operations and Chair of the National Census Technical Advisory Committee on Recruitment and Training.
Others are Professor Stephen Owusu Kwankye; Head of Recruitment and Training Ms. Abena Osei-Akoto, Head of Publicity for APS 2021, and Mr. Emmanuel George Ossei, Head of the National Census Secretariat.
