Remuneration for Census Officers clarified

The Ghana Statistical Service has clarified the mode of remuneration for enumerators and other officers engaged in the country's 2010 Population and Housing Census.

About 50,000 enumerators are participating in the collection of data on the size of the population and residential accommodation, estimated at a cost of 50 million dollars.

The success or otherwise of the two-week exercise largely depends on the commitment of the field officers to carry out the assigned tasks.

Such important national exercises, like the national identification project, have often been characterized by agitations over prompt and adequate payment of compensation.

Ashanti Regional Statistician, Emmanuel George Osei, explained there are adequate remuneration arrangements in place to ensure a smooth conduct of the 2010 Census.

He tells Luv Fm “this time we're not going to feed them. We've told them how much they're going to get, we even told them before the start of the training programme… so from the onset, we told them enumerators are going to take Gh₵500.00 up till the 10th of October. Supervisors Gh₵700.00 and the Senior Field Supervisors are taking Gh₵800.00, so that's the payment”.

Officers in Kumasi spent the Census Night enumerating street sleepers and other destitute in the metropolis. Some identifiable personalities, including the Asantehene are being enumerated on Monday, 27th September.

Story by Kofi Adu Domfeh