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Ghanaians to be sensitised for 2010 census
By Awudu Salami Sule
A Research Fellow of the Ghana Muslim Academy (GMA), Alhaji Adam
Yunus has asked the Ghana Statistical Service to properly orient
and motivate the over 45,000 enumerators and supervisors it
intends deploying for the nationwide census in March next year.
He said, the public should be well educated about the
significance of the exercise and the need for them to provide
accurate information about themselves.
Delivering a lecture on the topic " Towards successful 2010
population census-The role of Muslims in Ghana in Accra, Alhaji
Yunus suggested that the questionnaire for the exercise must be
made simple and easy to understand.
He said population census in developing countries like Ghana was
usually bedevilled with challenges as high illiteracy rate which
made self enumeration difficult.
He further noted that as a result of low education and
publicity, many people often entertained fears of using census
to find out about aliens to sack due to past political
experiences and fear of information being used for taxation
purpose.
"PNDC Law 135 makes census information a confidential one hence
such information can not be used in any way against some one
except for the purpose of knowing the population and its related
component for planning and economic development" he said.
He has therefore urged all Ghanaians especially muslims to
disabuse their minds that census figures would be used against
them and urged them to avail for the exercise.
Ghanadot
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