Employment and Labour Relations Minister Ignatius Baffuor Awuah has charged the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) to produce a labour force survey report yearly.
According to him, such a report will enable his ministry to obtain benchmark data to fashion out programmes in tackling unemployment. Speaking at the launch of the 2015 Labour Force Survey Report by the GSS on Thursday, March 23, Mr Awuah noted: “The essence of such surveys is that if it is not delivered on time, it becomes…useless and not relevant to issues at the time that it was released.”
He emphasised that such reports would inform stakeholders about the “true picture of even people who are employed, the type of jobs they are doing, and the job spread throughout the country”.
The GSS 2015 Labour Force Survey Report revealed that 91.5 per cent of the labour market was dominated by the private sector.
The survey, based on a sample size of 6,030 households, and which focused on respondents within the age bracket of 15 years and above, pointed out that 69.6 per cent were employed, 9.1 per cent unemployed, and an overall unemployment rate of 11.9 per cent.
The research, however, revealed that 54% of females were employed, compared to 46% males. The coordinator for the 2015 survey, Peter Peprah, told Class FM that the report was important to enable stakeholders take critical decisions concerning the country’s employment and labour sector.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
