Religions: Christian 71.2% (Pentecostal/Charismatic 28.3%, Protestant 18.4%, Catholic 13.1%, other 11.4%), Muslim 17.6%, traditional 5.2%, other 0.8%, none 5.2% (2010 census) National Holiday: Independence Day, March 6 Literacy rate: 71.5% (2010 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013 est...
The study area is selected cities in Ghana (Fig.1). The study was conducted in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale Metropolises in Ghana. According to Ghana’s 2010 Population and Housing Census, these cities are the biggest in Ghana’s southern, middle and northern parts. The three cities are cosmopo...
The units of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports (MOESS) responsible for education are: the Ghana Education Service (GES), which administers pre-university education; the National Council on Tertiary Education; the National Accreditation Board; and the National Board for Professional and ...
Data for this profile were obtained primarily from the March 20 1969 and March 1 1970 population censuses the June-July 1960 Post Enumeration Survey the 1968-1969 National Demographic Sample Survey and the August-September 1971 Supplementary Enquiry. Definitions of terms as used in the tables and ...
Religions:Christian 71.2% (Pentecostal/Charismatic 28.3%, Protestant 18.4%, Catholic 13.1%, other 11.4%), Muslim 17.6%, traditional 5.2%, other 0.8%, none 5.2% (2010 census) National Holiday:Independence Day, March 6 Literacy rate:71.5% (2010 est.) ...
Its purpose is to inform national policies, guide resource distribution, and monitor development progress. This study focused on access to sanitation facilities among persons 60 years or older. The census data is relevant in the context of this study since it provides enough data to understand the...
This paper provides an account of how Remote Sensing, GIS, census (mainly population and agricultural) and socioeconomic (household, district and regional) survey data have been integrated in studying the population land-use/cover nexus in Ghana. It also identifies the major methodological challenges...
Potential driving forces for rapid population growth related to size, location, accessibility and facility counts are examined using bivariate and multivariate analysis. An index of weighted accessibility relative to other urban localities provides significant explanation at the national level, as does ...
Given the rapid growth and market power of multinational food corporations in countries of the Global South [9], this represents a potential point of intervention that can be addressed early on through national public health nutrition campaigns. Such campaigns can help proactively mitigate the ...
This paper systematically relates local survey data to national census data in an investigation of one peripheral form of counter-urbanization now regarded... H Jones,J Caird,W Berry,... - 《Reg Stud》 被引量: 71发表: 1986年 An overview of urbanisation, internal migration, population distribut...