The third wave of the Households and Jobs Tracker, an initiative led by GSS in partnership with UNICEF and The World Bank and with technical support from Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA), focused on the protracted effects of COVID-19 on households and Jobs. Households from all the 16 regions of Ghana who responded to the first and second waves were contacted again in December 2021 through Computer Assisted Telephone-based Interviews (CATI). |
The second wave of the Households and Jobs Tracker, an initiative led by GSS in partnership with UNICEF and the World Bank and with technical support from Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA), focused on the protracted effects of COVID-19. Households from all 16 regions of Ghana who responded to the first wave were contacted in September 2020 through telephone-based interviews. Attrition Analysis |
The Households and Jobs Tracker is an initiative led by GSS in partnership with UNICEF and the World Bank, with technical support from Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA). This nationally-representative sample survey is one of three COVID-19 impact studies being implemented by GSS. The intention is to follow over 3,000 households from all 16 regions of Ghana through telephone-based interviews. Household and Job Survey report |
The shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has had considerable impacts on Ghanaian firms. Collaborating with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank, the Ghana Statistical Service’s Ghana Business Tracker aims at providing critical information to help the Government of Ghana, development partners and other organizations monitor the effects of the pandemic on businesses. The survey interviewed 4311 firms and was conducted between May 26 and June 17, 2020. Business Tracker Brief Report The second round (a panel survey) was conducted between August 15 - September 10, 2020, following up on the first round conducted between May 26 - June 17, 2020. A total of 3,658 firms were interviewed as part of the second-round survey. Wave 2 Summary Report |
COVID-19 Local Economy TrackerAlthough various containment strategies have been put in place to stop the spread of the COVID-19, it is evident that the pandemic has had negative effects on households and businesses, as well as the local economies in Ghana. To assess the impact of the pandemic on the local economies, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) conducted a survey on 2,770 localities in the country from May to June 2020. Out of the total number of localities surveyed: 554 of them are in districts that were in lockdown areas; 1,169 were in districts that share international borders with other countries (border districts); and 1,047 were neither in lockdown nor border districts (other districts). These results present the key findings from respondents involved in this survey. |
Covid - 19 Rapid Firm Tracker (New)The third round of the COVID-19 Business Tracker Survey (BTS) was conducted in September 2021 and re-interviewed firms from the second wave of the survey (August-September 2020). The BTS was conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), in collaboration with UNDP and the World Bank, to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on the private sector. A balanced sample of 3,602 business establishments and household firms were consistently interviewed in all three rounds of the survey. The original sample of 4,311 in the first round reduced to 3,658 due to attrition in the second wave. During the third wave, an additional 1,200 new firms were added to arrive at 4,858. The sample for the survey was drawn from the 2013 Integrated Business Establishment Survey (IBES), the 2017 Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS), and supplemented with listings of SMEs provided by the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) to ensure inclusion of recently established firms. The sample is nationally and regionally representative (see also Box 1 for a description of the methodology). |
