Population and Housing census to cost Ghana ₵521 million
According to the Census Secretariat, the amount includes the payment of enumerators, purchasing of logistics, fieldwork cost, and training of members
Jonas Danquah 
Ghana is projected to spend some five hundred and twenty-one million cedis (GHS 521 million) on its 2021 population and housing census.
According to the Head of Census Secretariat, Mr Emmanuel G. Osei, the quoted amount is unique because it will be done technologically and tablets have been acquired for enumerators and supervisors.
The amount, according to him, includes the payment of enumerators, purchasing of logistics, fieldwork cost, and training of members to facilitate the effectiveness and efficiency of the census.
Mr Osei said logistics are required in the enumeration process to enable the field officers to reach out to all villages, communities and hamlets across the districts in the Region.
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He said the GSS would need logistical support, including vehicles and motorbikes to reach out to residents in the hard-to-reach communities and urged the heads to avail themselves when they needed their support and services.
Mr Osei disclosed that the 2021 Census would be heavily dependent on the use of computer-assisted personal interviews and a global positioning system (GPS) coordination for all structures and communities.
He said recruitment, training of supervisors and field officers who would undertake the enumeration is ongoing and has therefore appealed to the participants to support the GSS to carry out a successful exercise.
