Source: Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Emmanuel Oti Boateng, a former Ghana Government Statistician and a member of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), the highest decision making body for international statistics has donated 10 copies of a booklet published by the UNSC in honour of its past chairs … Read more
Inflation for the month of February dropped to 13.2 percent. It represents a monthly change rate of 0.1 percent compared to the 13.3 percent recorded in January this year. According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the food and non-alcoholic beverages recorded an inflation of 7.1 percent while the non-food category recorded an inflation of 16.4 … Read more
Inflation for the month of February dropped to 13.2 percent. It represents a monthly change rate of 0.1 percent compared to the 13.3 percent recorded in January this year. According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the food and non-alcoholic beverages recorded an inflation of 7.1 percent while the non food category recorded an inflation of … Read more
This rate is 1.7 percent lower than the rate recorded in December 2016 which was 4.9 percent. The monthly change rate for January 2017 was 2.1 percent. According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the Mining and Quarrying sub-sector recorded the highest year-on-year producer price inflation rate of 18.6 percent, followed by the Manufacturing sub-sector with … Read more
Ghana’s inflation for the first month of 2017, January recorded 13.3 percent. The figure dropped by 2.8 percent from the 15.4 percent recorded in December 2016. Ghana started 2016 with an inflation of 19 percent; increasing to 19.2 percent in March and further increasing to 18.9 percent in May and subsequently 17.2 percent in September … Read more
It was a cultural taboo for a woman to ask for sexual gratification in Nigeria, until now. Despite being bombarded by sexually suggestive photos, explicit lyrics and raunchy dance moves in the media, many women are brought up with the socially conservative attitude that “good girls” just do not talk about sex. But Iheoma Obibi … Read more
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) on Friday launched the second National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS II) in Accra. The five-year strategic document was a framework drafted to assist the GSS to “strengthen its statistical capacity across the National Statistical System (NSS)”. NSDS II follows the yet-to-end Ghana Statistics Development Plan (GSDP), which … Read more
The Producer Price Index (PPI) which measures the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers for production of their goods and service has marginally increased to 9.8% in October. The rate indicates that between October 2015 and October 2016(year-on-year) the PPI increased by 9.8 percent. This rate represents a 0.1 percentage … Read more