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February 8, 2021
The Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai, has today, paid an inspirational and spirited visit to the Cartographic Mapping Officers for the 2021 Mid-Term Population and Housing Census, during their training sessions conducted by Statistics Sierra Leone.
During the visit, the Minister expressed his delight in commencement of the training of cartographic mappers; congratulating the participants, who are part of the 1,200 shortlisted candidates selected for the nationwide exercise and for being part of such a landmark event that would kick start the actual Census process.
Dr. Kai-Kai emphasized the importance of the process, noting this was the first time an electronic Census was happening in the country, which in itself would make the process to generate credible Population and Housing Data mid-way between the Census in 2015 and 2025. He encouraged the participants of the training to take it very seriously and also take advantage of the
Journalists and Media Houses have been cautioned to verify their information about the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), before publishing such information.
Professor Samuel Kubina Annim, Government Statistician and also the Chief Census Officer, gave the advice at a day’s training workshop his out-fit organized at Winneba for selected journalists from the southern sector on “Media Relations on the forthcoming PHC”.
Journalists in the northern and the middle zones have already benefited from the training.
The participants were drawn from Volta, Eastern, Central, Western and Grater Accra Regions and the facilitators were Mr. Emmanuel George Ossei, Head of the National Census Secretariat, Mr. Owusu Kagya, Head of Census Methodology and Mr. William Addo, Publicity, Education and Advocacy.