Census to be carried out in formal and informal businesses in country -GSS declares
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has declared it will carry out a thorough census of all formal and informal businesses nationwide in order to improve decision-making businesses to prosper.
According to the Service, the exercise will be conducted in two stages, the first of which will take place in mid-October 2023 and the second in 2024.
The GSS continued by saying that the census, which will also include businesses that are not for profit, will be an improvement over those conducted since 1962.
At the Integrated Business Establishment Survey (IBES) Stakeholders Consultative meeting in the country, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim said, the survey will be extremely help to the country.
“One of the goals that we will achieve with the census is what we are calling helping businesses escape the informality trap. So as a service, we’ve identified that from different perspectives we’ve looked at businesses as informal or persons working in businesses as informal. So different development partners, different policy instruments, different policy trajectories that seek to solve the informality problem that we have.”
“The second unique advantage of the 2023 Ghana integrated business establishment survey which we will realize in the second phase is how we can ensure that the challenges that we have to endure during the pandemic in attempting to provide data to overcome those challenges,” he stated.
Prof. Annim reemphasized the necessity of the data collection exercise to support policymaking and pleaded with all business owners for their cooperation.
