Tag: Government Statistician
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Producer Price Inflation rises from 14.7% to 15.6% in January 2022
The year-on-year Producer Price Inflation (PPI) for all industries for the first month of 2022 has risen to 15.6 percent, up from the 14.7 percent recorded in December 2021. The rate represents a 0.9 percentage point increase in the average price of goods and services received by domestic producers in the country for their production…
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Price of goods and services up by almost 10%
Latest data released by the Ghana Statistical Service, GSS, indicates that on a year-on-year basis (January 2020 to January 2021), the average price of goods and services across the country increased by 9.9 percent. The rise in the inflation rate for January 2021, is however lower than the rate recorded for December 2020 by 0.5…
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Inflation drops to 10.1%; lowest level since March 2020
The national year-on-year inflation rate in Ghana has dropped for the third consecutive time falling to 10.1 percent in the month of October. The inflation rate for October is therefore 0.3 percentage point lower than the inflation rate for the month of September. The decrease was influenced by the lower inflation levels of some non-food…
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Producer Price Inflation increases marginally for September
The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) for September 2020, saw an increase compared to the same period last month. The PPI increased by 0.6 percentage points, recording 9.6 percent, compared to the 9.0 percent it recorded same time in August. This means the year-on-year PPI, thus between September 2019 and September2020, increased by 9.6 percent. The…
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GSS, Vodafone and Flowminder acquire data on movement of people during COVID-19 lockdown
The Ghana Statistical Service, (GSS) Vodafone Ghana, and the Flowminder Foundation, are using innovative data science techniques to support the government’s response against COVID-19. The long-standing Data For Good partnership by the three organizations, has enabled the production of rapid mobility estimates using anonymised and aggregated mobile phone data to support the government’s interventions against…