The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) says the preliminary report which presents the 2021provisional results of the Population and housing census (PHC) will be made available to the public on 22nd September 2021, making it the first time ever the provisional results will be released within a 3-month period from the Census night.
The GSS, in a press statement released on 14th September, 2021, said the Product Release Calendar for the 2021 Population and Housing Census which previews the data products that will be generated from the 2021 PHC has already been published.
“The purpose of releasing this calendar ahead of the product releases is to provide information to stakeholders and data users on when data products from the census will be made available to the public to promote extensive usage of the census data”, portions of the statement read.
The 2021 PHC which is the nation’s first fully digital census utilizing technology to enhance census implementation and data quality is to provide updated demographic, socio-economic and housing data for research, policy, and planning over the next decade.
GSS further said “the use of technology for data capture and real-time data quality monitoring facilitated faster data processing and results release.”
The release calendar features six (6) different types of publications and eight (8) interactive and user-friendly products to be released within the next two years to meet the diverse needs of data users. The publications are the Preliminary Report, Residential Proximity to Essential Services Report, General Report, Thematic Reports, Analytical Reports, and the Census Atlas.
The other products are policy briefs, interactive census results dashboard, infographics, dissemination seminars, webinars for data users, videos, fact sheets, and 1% Public Use Microdata Sample.
Source: ATLFMNEWS
