Author: Beyonce Diamond Kpogli
The Ghana Statistical Service has released the Ghana 2022 Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey (AHIES) from its third-quarter Labour statistics.
At the launch of the report in Accra, Government Statistician of the Ghana Statistical Service, Professor Samuel Anim revealed that about 1.76. million people were unemployed in the third quarter of 2022.
Within this population, he said two out of every three unemployed persons were females. Across the three quarters, about 157,000 people experienced an unemployment spell, therefore they were unemployed in all the quarters.
He continued that close to 7.5 million persons remained employed throughout the three quarters out of the about 11 million persons employed in each quarter.
“This indicates that across the three quarters, about 3.5 million people were moving in and out of employment depicting vulnerabilities,” he revealed.
Prof. Anim his presentation indicated with the key takeaway that “two out of every three unemployed persons in Q3 that were employed in Q1 were vulnerable in the first quarter.”
“Finally, the triple population burden therefore simultaneously unemployed, food insecure and multidimensionally poor increased by almost 55,000 between Q2.”
He called on Government to place much emphasis on the unemployed and those who are marginally poor.
Hon. Bright Wireko-Brobbey, the Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, who chaired the event, in his remarks, expressed the government’s gratitude to GSS for continuously producing quality, reliable and robust data to inform public and private policy-making and research.
“The ministry is very interested in such quarterly labour to support the implementation of their mandate to ensure decent work for all. The production of such data for policy making is in line with the country’s aim to achieve SDGs, particularly SDG 8 on decent work and productive employment, the AU Agenda 2063 and the coordinated programme of Economic and Social Development Policies 2017-2024,” the Minister emphasised.
The AHIES 2022 Third Quarter Labour Statistics Report can be downloaded from www.statsghana.gov.gh.
