The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that 80 per cent of the enumerators for the just-ended 2021 population and housing census have been paid their allowances in full.
He said the rest who are yet to be paid will receive their s soon after they have returned all the gadgets given to them for the exercise.
Head of the Resource and Data Centre (RDC) of the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and lead official for the 2021 Population and Housing Census Technical Working team, Mr Johnson Owusu Kagya told TV3’s Johnnie Hughes on the New Day show on Thursday September 23 that the contract between the GSS and the enumerators stated that payment would be done upon return of all the tools in possession of the census officials.
Asked whether the enumerators have been paid after the conclusion of the census exercise, he said “Not all of them have been paid.
“Before the exercise we went into contract and the contract said we will begin paying 30 per cent of the contract sum and when you are done, meaning you have sent the data to us and you have returned all our items to us, and so, when you are done with it then we clear you and that is when we will pay you the remaining 70 per cent.
“As at last week we had paid about 80 per cent of the enumerators in full. We are left with the 20 per cent and it has to do with being sure that we don’t okay the money into the wrong people and also getting our returnable items.
“There could be instances where people will tell you if you don’t me I will not give you your tablet but it is the other way round , we should get the tablet first before payment is done.
“What if we give you the money and you also don’t bring the items?
On Wednesday September, the Government Statistician Professor Samuel Kobina Annim said Ghana’s population is currently 30.8 million.
This is up from the 30.42 million figure as of 2019. The total population for Ghana as of the last census in 2010 was enumerated at 24,658,823.
The update was announced at a press conference in Accra.
Overall, females make up 50.7% of the population and males 49.3%, giving a national sex ratio of 97 males for every 100 females.
In all, 8,345,414 households were enumerated, with an average national household size of 3.6 persons.
By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana
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