The Ghana Statistical Service has today released the Ghana 2022 Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey (AHIES) third-quarter Labour statistics.
At the launch of the report in Accra Government Statistician at 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, that is they were unemployed in all the quarters.
He stated that close to 7.5 million people 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.
Prof.Anim said with these key takeaways would be looked out for the 1.57,000 unemployed people across the three quarters and proposed to Government to include it as part of his intervention and policy to target these 1.57,000 people.
He called on Government to place much emphasis on the unemployed and those who are dimensionally poor.
By uniquenewsgh.com