[ 2017-03-23 ]

Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah launched the report Thursday

Labour Force Survey report out
The Employment and Labour Relations ministry will
henceforth have better grounds of operation and
policy making to transform Ghana’s growing
unemployment rate in the country. The introduction
of the first ever labour force survey report by
the Ghana Statistical Service will make this
possible.

The 2015 Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the first
stand-alone survey on labour aimed at collecting
basic statistics on Ghana's human resource. The
survey thus provides data to both the public and
private sectors and other relevant institutions to
enable them make informed decisions on the labour
force and labour-related issues in the country.

Speaking on the sidelines of the report launch
Thursday, Employment and Labour Relations
Minister, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, lauded the Ghana
Statistical Service for its role in the production
of the country's first stand-alone survey on
labour.

According to him, the report will play a vital
role in providing the ministry with adequate
information on the state of affairs as far as
employment and unemployment issues are concerned.
It will also breach the previous gap of
inadequacies and unavailability of data and
statistics to equip the ministry in its
operations.

“This is a research report that is going to give
us evidence-based issues related to employment
issues in the country, it is going to give us a
true picture of the unemployment situation, and
the true picture of people who are employed, what
types of job they are doing, how are the jobs
spread throughout the region. If you sit in Accra
here and assume that perhaps what you see here
reflects the totality, sometimes you may be wrong,
so sometimes it’s good to get experts to go
round, interview the people”, he said.

Additionally Mr. Baffour Awuah said the report
will serve as a reference material for other
stakeholders including researchers, and other
relevant institutions who may implore its use in
their work.

He charged the Ghana Statistical Service with the
mandate of ensuring that the surveys are
frequently conducted and published for
stakeholders to keep abreast with the issues and
produce timely results to that effect.

“I think we might have to take our time to study
in detail what the report says so that we use that
to influence policy making in future. The essence
of report findings like this is that if it is not
delivered on time, it becomes useless because it
may not be relevant to issues which may be
pertaining at the time it was released”, he
stated.

Mr. Baffour Awuah also urged stakeholders to
carefully study the report, identify the gaps in
the system and create policies to address those
gaps moving forward, this he says will help
address the growing spate of unemployment in the
country.

The 2015 Labour Force Survey was launched by the
Minister of Employment and Labour Relations,
Ignatius Baffour Awuah in Accra Thursday March 23
2017.

Source - GhanaWeb.com

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