The government has postponed the 2020 housing and population census which was scheduled for June 28, 2020.
Making the announcement during a press conference on Wednesday, the Government Statistian; Prof. Samuel Annim explained that “June 28, 2020, as the Census Night has been rescheduled”, Prof Annim told journalists, adding: “We need to put together over 75,000 enumerators and supervisors and train them”.
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) announced in January that the census which was originally scheduled for March 2020 will delay by another two months.
The change in date, the GSS explained at the time, was anticipated following observations from the completed field census mapping exercise, which, it said, engendered the need to redesign the technological interventions required for complete coverage, enhanced accuracy and timely release of the census results.
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