Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim
Ghana Statistical Service Releases Maiden Quarterly Reports from the 2022 Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey (AHIES) on 1st September.
Among persons in the labour force (15 years and older) about 380,000 are triple burdened i.e. they’re simultaneously food insecure, multidimensionally poor, and unemployed” This discovering was revealed by the Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim in a presentation on the launch of the quarterly Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey (AHIES) report on Thursday 1st September 2022. Prof. Annim additional revealed that the “Savannah Region has the highest percent of triple burdened persons” (8.2%) which is greater than twice the nationwide common of three.2%.
The occasion launched highlights on multidimensional poverty, food insecurity, and labour statistics from the primary and second quarters. The statistics revealed that between the primary and second quarter of 2022, food insecurity dropped by 7.0 proportion factors whereas multidimensional poverty dropped by 2.6%. Unemployment fee elevated by 0.5 proportion factors.
The launch was chaired by Professor Kwaku Appiah-Adu, Senior Advisor to the Vice President.
In his remarks, he counseled the Ghana Statistical Service for conducting the AHIES which is producing well timed and related knowledge for coverage and planning. He concluded by stating that “Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, as a country, we have great challenges and great opportunities; I am in no doubt that the comprehensive quarterly labour force, food insecurity and multi-dimensional poverty report obtained will support Government in evidence-based decision-making and policy design of its programmes and projects for development and a more robust outlook of the Ghanaian economy.”
The Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey (AHIES) is the primary nationally consultant high-frequency family panel survey in Ghana. The AHIES is being performed to acquire quarterly and annual knowledge on family closing consumption expenditure and a large scope of demographic, financial and welfare variables together with statistics on labour, food safety, multidimensional poverty and well being standing for analysis, coverage, and planning.
Thus, it’s doable for the Statistical Service to current statistics on labour transitions for the primary time. The findings indicated that about 390,000 persons 15 years and older unemployed in quarter 1 remained unemployed in quarter 2 of 2022 whereas between the primary and second quarters of 2022, about 445,000 persons 15 years and older exterior the labour force joined the variety of unemployed persons.
The labour statistics additionally indicated that about two-thirds of the employed inhabitants are engaged in susceptible employment with vital variation throughout city areas (56.4%) and rural (80%).
The report additionally highlighted gender inequalities in the labour force indicating that unadjusted gender pay hole in Q1 is 37.3 p.c, with males incomes a imply hourly pay of GH¢11.00 and females GH¢6.90.
Other highlights from the discharge indicated 49.1% of persons in Ghana are reasonably food insecure, 12.3% are severely food insecure and 44.1% are multidimensional poor. Health insurance coverage protection is the main contributor to multidimensional poverty with about 14 million persons in Ghana not at present having energetic medical health insurance protection.
About the Ghana Statistical Service
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) gives complete, dependable, high quality, related, correct and well timed statistical data to information nationwide growth as stipulated in Section 3 of the Statistical Service Act, 2019 (Act 1003). GSS additionally produces month-to-month and quarterly knowledge on vital financial indicators corresponding to inflation, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Producer Price Index, and Gross Domestic Product in addition to inhabitants, housing, demographic and financial knowledge on the locality, district, and nationwide ranges from routine surveys and censuses. The statistics generated by GSS are utilised by a large cross-section of customers together with the general public sector, companies, academia, civil society organisations and growth companions.
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