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     Deputy Minister in the Presidency Thembi Siweya, left, visits homeless people at Johannnesburg's Park Station on 'Census Night', 2 February. – Source: GCIS/Flickr Statistics South Africa has embarked on its once-a-decade process to count all people in the country – including non-citizens. Census 2022 is arguably the most important …

A total of1, 551, 118 persons aged 15 years above are unemployed in the country while 9,990,237 are employed, according to the 2021 Population and Housing Census figures. Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government statistician, said the unemployment rate among the population aged 15 years above was 13.4 percent and …

The Chief and people of Kandiga, a community in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region, said they are not participating in the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC). They said the unanimous decision to boycott the exercise was due to irregularities in the demarcation and description of …

The residents in the Bonkron Electoral Area in the Ahafo Ano North District of the Ashanti Region have chased enumerators conducting the 2021 census with sticks, cutlasses and other offensive weapons in the line of their duty. The enumerators escaped from the angry residents after they took cover at the …

Of the GHS521 million needed for the population and housing census, the government of Ghana has released GHS449 million so far, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has said. “The present effort of the government is captured in the fact that with a budget of GHS521 million, the government has already mobilised and …

Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia will announce the 2021 Housing and Population Census (PHC) today, Friday, March 19, when he launches the 100-day count down to the Census. The Census Night is the reference date for census enumeration and all questions asked during the enumeration would relate to that night. It also …