Ghana - Population and Housing Census 2021 - Ghana

Start	End	Cycle
2021-09-26	2021-10-22	N/A

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [CAPI]
A trial census was held in 6 selected districts in November 2009 for 10 days. This was followed by the training of Trainiong of Trainers. The trainers were to be come supervisors of th main census.

The fieldwork began on 20th September 2021 with identification of EA boundaries, listing of structures, enumeration of institutional population and floating population, and continued with the enumeration of the household population after Census Night (26th Septmber 2021) for three weeks. A mopping-up exercise to cover about 10 percent uncompleted areas, mainly in selected Districts, was carried out until the end of November. The coverage of the population was mainly on de-facto basis, but a questionnaire item was provided to enable the usual resident population to be obtained.

Questionaires were in the English language but enumerators, as part of their trainning were encouraged to use the local language when the need arose.

PHC-1A: Household questionnaire - admistered to household population. This questionnaire includes modules on Household roster, Usual household members absent, Emigration, Population, Mortality, ICT, Agriculture and Housing

PHC-1A Usual Members Absent Continuation Sheet

PHC-1A Emigration Continuation Sheet

PHC-1B: Group quarter questionnaire - administered to homeless households and group quarter population. This excludes usual members absent, emigration, mortality, ICT at household level, agricultural and housing modules.

PHC-1C: Group quarter questionnaire which was administered to individual members and later transferred to PHC-1B questionnaire

PHC-3: EA Result Sheet - Captured summary information on population by sex and the number of localities in each Enumeration Area (EA).

PHC-4: Final Summary Sheet - Captured summary information on the number of residential structures, number of households, population by sex and household and non-household population and the availability of telecommunication, education, health and toilet facilities in the locality.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Ghana Statistical Service	GSS

The 2021 Population and Housing Census had these levels of supervision:

Field Operations Coordinator (a member of the National Census Coordinating Team in Accra) who was responsible for the entire field operation;

At the Regional level, the highest authority was the Regional Census Officer, who was responsible for all aspects of census work as well as the overall supervision of census operations in the region. He/she was assisted by the Assistant Regional Census Officer;

Each Administrative District was under the supervision of a District Census Officer (DCO). The DCO was assisted by a number of Senior Field Supervisors;

Each District was divided into Supervision Areas, each of which was under one Field Supervisor. A Field Supervisor had between five and seven Enumerators to supervise.