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The 2017\/18 GCA is the fourth to be conducted since 1950. The second census was conducted in 1970, 20 years after the initial GCA, and the third occurred 15 years later in 1985. Carried out 33 years after the third census of agriculture, the 2017\/18 GCA was the first to include agricultural institutions. The 2017\/18 GCA was also the first electronic census where the Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) technique was deployed in the collection of data on households and institutions engaged in agricultural activities nationwide.<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"Final Report 11 11 2020 printed version.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/Final Report 11 11 2020 printed version.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/R Report_19_10_2020.jpg","PressImageName":"R Report_19_10_2020.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2020-10-19","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2020-11-12","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2020-11-12","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/R Report_19_10_2020.jpg"},{"PressID":"64","PressTitle":"Urbanisation","PressDescription":"
Ghana’s population has witnessed not only rapid growth but also rapid urbanisation since independence. This has been fuelled by policies during the colonial period which have been largely sustained through the post-independence era as well as the interplay between natural population increase and migration.<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"Urbanisation in Ghana.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/Urbanisation in Ghana.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/Urbanisation in Ghana.jpg","PressImageName":"Urbanisation in Ghana.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2014-10-01","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2018-02-01","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2018-02-01","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/Urbanisation in Ghana.jpg"},{"PressID":"63","PressTitle":"Migration in Ghana","PressDescription":"
In line with the importance it has assumed globally, the 2000 and 2010 censuses collected information on migration. Many scholarly works have linked migration to brisk urbanization in Ghana (Songsore, 2003; UN, 2008; GSS, 1995 and GSS, 2000).<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"Migration in Ghana.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/Migration in Ghana.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/Migration in Ghana.jpg","PressImageName":"Migration in Ghana.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2014-10-10","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2018-02-01","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2018-02-01","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/Migration in Ghana.jpg"},{"PressID":"62","PressTitle":"Mortality","PressDescription":"
The monograph on ‘Mortality in Ghana’ is one of the additional eight monographs that has been prepared from the 2010 Population and Housing Census data and is meant to inform policy makers on issues relating to mortality in Ghana.<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"Mortality in Ghana.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/Mortality in Ghana.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/Mortality in Ghana.jpg","PressImageName":"Mortality in Ghana.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2013-09-01","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"admin","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"admin","PressApprovalDate":"2018-01-31","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"admin","PressPublishDate":"2018-01-31","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/Mortality in Ghana.jpg"},{"PressID":"61","PressTitle":"Millennium Development Goals in Ghana","PressDescription":"
Ghana, like many other developing countries, relies mainly on survey and population census data for planning at the national and the sub-national levels. Characteristics of the population such as age, sex, education and occupation are obtained from census data and complemented by other relevant indicators from national sample survey data<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"MDG report.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/MDG report.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/MDG report.jpg","PressImageName":"MDG report.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2013-07-01","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"admin","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"admin","PressApprovalDate":"2018-01-31","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"admin","PressPublishDate":"2018-01-31","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/MDG report.jpg"},{"PressID":"48","PressTitle":"2010 PHC Elderly in Ghana","PressDescription":"
The concept elderly refers to a category of adults who have attained advanced ages, 60 or 65 years.. The United Nations uses 60 years to refer to the elderly. In the developed countries where life expectancy is high and the age of retirement from active<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"2010phc_the_elderly_in_Gh.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/2010phc_the_elderly_in_Gh.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010phc_the_elderly_in_Gh.jpg","PressImageName":"2010phc_the_elderly_in_Gh.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2013-07-01","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2018-01-16","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2018-01-16","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010phc_the_elderly_in_Gh.jpg"},{"PressID":"47","PressTitle":"2010 PHC Children Adolescents & Young People in Ghana","PressDescription":"
The rapid growth of Ghana’s population has resulted in a youthful population, with two in every five people in the country being less than 15 years. This is reflected in all the national censuses conducted in the country after independence<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"2010phc_children_adolescents_&young_people_in_Gh.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/2010phc_children_adolescents_&young_people_in_Gh.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010phc_children_adolescents_&young_people_in_Gh.jpg","PressImageName":"2010phc_children_adolescents_&young_people_in_Gh.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2013-07-01","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2018-01-16","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2018-01-16","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010phc_children_adolescents_&young_people_in_Gh.jpg"},{"PressID":"46","PressTitle":"2010 PHC Monograph Women & Men in Ghana","PressDescription":"
At all the different stages of life from infancy through childhood, adolescence, adulthood to old age, one fundamental distinction which all societies recognise is that between males and females.<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"2010phc_monograph_women_&_men_in_Gh.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/2010phc_monograph_women_&_men_in_Gh.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010phc_monograph_women_&_men_in_Gh.jpg","PressImageName":"2010phc_monograph_women_&_men_in_Gh.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2013-07-01","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2018-01-16","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2018-01-16","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010phc_monograph_women_&_men_in_Gh.jpg"},{"PressID":"45","PressTitle":"2010 PHC Demographic Social Economic Housing Characteristics","PressDescription":"
The Demographic, Social, Economic and Housing Characteristics Report is the third in the series of publications to be released from the 2010 Population and Housing Census. It contains detailed tables required by most Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), Development Partners, the private sector, researchers and other stakeholders for policy formulation, planning, programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes.<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"2010_PHC_demographic_social_economic_housing_characteristics.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/2010_PHC_demographic_social_economic_housing_characteristics.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010_PHC_demographic_social_economic_housing_characteristics.jpg","PressImageName":"2010_PHC_demographic_social_economic_housing_characteristics.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2013-06-01","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2018-01-16","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2018-01-16","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010_PHC_demographic_social_economic_housing_characteristics.jpg"},{"PressID":"33","PressTitle":"Housing in Ghana","PressDescription":"
Across the world and especially in the developing world, housing remains one of the critical development challenges because of the huge gap between the supply and demand for housing. Consequently, some have described the situation as a global crisis.<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"Housing in Ghana.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/Housing in Ghana.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/PHCHSE.jpg","PressImageName":"PHCHSE.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":null,"PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2017-11-08","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2017-11-08","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/PHCHSE.jpg"},{"PressID":"32","PressTitle":"Ghana Population Prospects","PressDescription":"
Ghana’s population has a high potential inherent in the age structure with a subsequent rapid expansion of the population well into the 21st century. A decline of fertility to the replacement level in such a population is usually accompanied by an ultimate population increase of two-thirds before growth ceases (Kefitz 1971).<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"Ghana Population Prospects.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/Ghana Population Prospects.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/GPP.jpg","PressImageName":"GPP.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":null,"PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2017-11-07","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2017-11-07","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/GPP.jpg"},{"PressID":"31","PressTitle":"Fertility in Ghana","PressDescription":"
The challenges of rapid population growth was not foreseen in Ghana until its first post-independence Population and Housing Census (PHC) in 1960, which reported a fertility rate of 6.5 children per woman (GSS and MI, 1998).<\/p>\n","PressDocumentName":"Fertility in Ghana.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/Fertility in Ghana.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/FG.jpg","PressImageName":"FG.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":null,"PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2017-11-07","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2017-11-07","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/FG.jpg"},{"PressID":"30","PressTitle":"Economic Activities","PressDescription":"
As nations aspire to grow via a transformed economy and reduced poverty and inequality, an understanding of the economic activities of its’ citizenry remain indispensable.
\r\nThis has culminated in a wide range of both theoretical and empirical discourse on issues related to economic activities in a country including the following: determinants of the decision to engage in an economic activity; structure of labour markets (demand and supply); wage determinants and differentials; patterns and trends of employment and unemployment and most importantly the relationship between economic growth and employment (employment elasticity of growth). <\/p>\r\n\r\n","PressDocumentName":"Economic Activities 26-2-2015.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/Economic Activities 26-2-2015.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010.jpg","PressImageName":"2010.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2013-05-01","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"admin","PressApprovalDate":"2017-11-24","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"admin","PressPublishDate":"2017-11-24","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/2010.jpg"},{"PressID":"29","PressTitle":"Disability in Ghana","PressDescription":"
The monograph on Disability in Ghana is one of the additional eight monographs that has been prepared from the 2010 Population and Housing Census data and is meant to inform policy makers on issues relating to Persons with Disability (PWDs) in Ghana. The report focuses on the prevalence and type of disability as well as the socio-economic characteristics of PWDs in Ghana<\/p>","PressDocumentName":"Disability in Ghana.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/Disability in Ghana.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/Disability_in_Ghana_Page_001a.jpg","PressImageName":"Disability_in_Ghana_Page_001a.jpg","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2014-10-01","PressSysDate":null,"PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalDate":"2017-11-07","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"keshun","PressPublishDate":"2018-01-26","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/Disability_in_Ghana_Page_001a.jpg"},{"PressID":"14","PressTitle":"FAO Ghana Country Profile Final 2012 on Gender Inequality in Rural Ghana","PressDescription":"
Despite Ghana’s great progress in poverty reduction, an important share of rural men and women in the country still lack decent work opportunities. The Northern part of the country and rural areas in general are of major concern. Rural women in particular face greater difficulties in transforming their labour into more productive employment activities and their paid work into higher and more secure incomes. Similarly, the young rural population faces barriers in joining the labour market and migration is often a livelihood strategy.<\/p>","PressDocumentName":"GDPR flyer.pdf","PressDocumentType":"application\/pdf","PressDocumentLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/GDPR flyer.pdf","PressImageLocation":"..\/..\/..\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/1.PNG","PressImageName":"1.PNG","PressShowYN":"Y","PressReleaseDate":"2014-10-01","PressSysDate":"2017-08-02 21:20:21","PressCreatedPerson":"keshun","PressApprovalYN":"Y","PressApprovalPerson":"admin","PressApprovalDate":"2017-08-02","PressPublishYN":"Y","PressPublishPerson":"admin","PressPublishDate":"2017-08-02","PressType":"Publication","StatsDocumentCategoryID":"49","sPressImageLocation":"\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/img\/1.PNG"}]