2021 PHC: PWDs calls for improvement in census questionnaire to factor them
The Persons with Disability (PWD) have bemoaned the spate of irrelevant questions posed to PWDs during the Population and Housing Census enumeration exercise.
Nana Ama Asiedu Francisca 
Persons with Disability (PWD) have asked the government to consider improving on the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) questionnaire to appropriately capture PWDs.
This clarion call has emphasized the need for nations, for that matter Ghana to consciously undertake the age-long recommendation of decennial population and Housing census with gaps and as a constitutional responsibility of the Government of Ghana.
They are calling for the improvement of the questionnaire, to enable it to capture PWDs who haven’t been enumerated. The group also bemoaned the spate of irrelevant questions posed to PWDs during the enumeration exercise.
“We also want to alert you that, PWDs who have been counted say enumerators also ask irrelevant questions. “For example, the enumerators may see a person with Disabilities and ask him or her whether she can see, can walk, can bath herself, and can eat herself. Etc.
"These questions with regards to PWDs are very few and not appropriate. They don’t capture the various categories of persons with disabilities in the country, such as physically disabled, blind and partially sighted, deaf, persons with albinism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome and little people etc,” they noted.
