The Minority leader of Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has described the 2021 Population and Housing Census as a worthy exercise and a very significant intervention for data collection and therefore urged Ghanaians to get counted as the program progress across the country.
He said the exercise would provide the country a comprehensive statistical data for purposes of projections and comparisons and an integrated picture of the society based on an assessment of the multiple numerical and changes that has taken place in the population.
Mr. Iddrisu noted more importantly, the population and housing census also provides some social and economic data that would be relevant to national development planning effort.
However, in a media interaction at his private residence in Tamale Monday, (28 June, 2021), the Tamale South lawmaker warned against incidence of double counting during the exercise to avoid losing its credibility.
But nonetheless, he indicated it is a worthy exercise and a worthy intervention of trying to know and collect demographic data of the country.
“It will give us some detailed information even including how many expatriates are in our country, how many are citizens of Ghana, the sex distribution and the partial distribution of the population” he added.
Meanwhile, Mr. George Agbenyo, Director of the Ghana Statistical Service in the Northern Region said the participation of the Minority leader and other leading public figures means they have recognize the importance of the exercise and thereby urged the citizenry to follow suit and avail themselves for the data collection.
The Northern Region has a total number of 4, 236 Enumeration Areas with 5, 392 Field Staff engaged across the region.
THE CUSTODIAN has gathered that a total number of 4, 476 Enumerators have deployed to conduct the census in the area with 916 Supervisors and 39 District Field Supervisors.
