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EDUCATIONAL SECTOR

attendance provides some measure of human resource potential of a country. The need to gather and analyze data on the population currently attending school thus becomes imperative. Additionally, data on the level of education attained by various segments of the population does not only provide an idea of a nation’s readiness to harness human resources for socio-economic development but also it helps to identify potential literacy gaps.

The school attendance profile for the District’s population 3 years and older is presented in Figure 3.2. Of the total persons aged 3 years and older, 32.1 percent had attended school in the past, 37.7 percent were schooling at the time of the census while 30.3 percent have never attended school. Females are less likely to have attended school in the past than males: 27.8 percent for females and 37.2 percent for males. Meanwhile, the proportion of females who have never attended school (39.1%)

Table 3.10 presents results on the population aged 3 years and older by level of education and sex. Out of the 10,375 persons who are currently attending school, 18.1 percent are in Kindergarten, 52.3 percent are in Primary School, 18.3 percent are in Junior High School while 5.9 percent are in Senior High School. There are not much disparities between sexes in level of education.

With regards to those who attended school in the past 36.4 percent attended Primary, 30.5 percent attended JSS/JHS, 19.4 percent attended Middle school and only 2.5 percent attended Tertiary. Also, the results show that a higher proportion of the females (45.4%) than that of the males (28.3%) ended their education at the primary level while a higher proportion of the males (3.9%) than the females (1.0%) completed Tertiary education (Table 3.10).


Literacy and Education


There is a relationship between education, human resource development and economic growth (UNDP). A critical component of education is the ability to read and write, that is, literacy. Literacy questions were posed to persons aged 11 years and older. Questions on education, on the other hand, were posed to persons 3 years and older.


Literacy


Table 3.9 shows that three-quarters (66.8%) of the population aged 11 years and older is literate while one-third (33.2%) are not literate. Of the literate population, more than two-thirds (68.3%) of the population can read and write in Ghanaian language while one-quarter (25.3%) can read and write in Ghanaian language only. The results further show that the number of females who are non-literates (5,231) is almost three times more than that of the males (1,801).

Table 3.9: Population 11 years and older by sex, age and literacy status

Age group

None (not literate)

Literate

Total

English only

Ghanaian language only

English and Ghanaian language

English and French

English, French and Ghanaian language

Both Sexes

Total

7,032

14,133

100.0

5.2

25.3

68.3

0.3

0.9

11-14

130

2,576

100.0

7

31.4

60.8

0.1

0.6

15-19

262

2,988

100.0

5.9

17.8

75.5

0.3

0.5

20-24

395

1,970

100.0

5.5

17.8

75.4

0.6

0.8

25-29

470

1,470

100.0

5.4

25.7

66.9

0.5

1.6

30-34

504

1,046

100.0

4.6

30.2

64

0.3

1

35-39

494

905

100.0

3.5

26.6

68.5

0.2

1.1

40-44

618

747

100.0

3.3

30.5

65.5

0

0.7

45-49

586

625

100.0

4.5

27.8

66.2

0.2

1.3

50-54

673

535

100.0

3.6

31.8

62.8

0.6

1.3

55-59

403

316

100.0

2.2

28.8

68.4

0

0.6

60-64

508

352

100.0

3.7

27

68.5

0

0.9

65+

1,989

603

100.0

2.2

32.5

63.7

0.2

1.5

Male

Total

1,801

7,501

100.0

4.4

21.4

72.7

0.4

1

11-14

78

1,354

100.0

6.9

30.3

62

0.2

0.5

15-19

118

1,541

100.0

4.9

17.7

76.5

0.5

0.4

20-24

130

985

100.0

4.6

13.4

80.4

0.7

0.9

25-29

110

765

100.0

5.2

20.8

71.6

0.5

1.8

30-34

130

516

100.0

4.7

20.7

72.9

0.6

1.2

35-39

114

492

100.0

2.2

19.5

76.4

0.2

1.6

40-44

142

412

100.0

1.5

22.1

75.7

0

0.7

45-49

141

341

100.0

4.1

20.2

73.9

0.3

1.5

50-54

166

298

100.0

2.7

22.8

71.8

1

1.7

55-59

88

199

100.0

1

22.1

75.9

0

1

60-64

116

219

100.0

3.2

19.2

76.3

0

1.4

65+

468

379

100.0

1.3

30.9

65.2

0.3

2.4

Female

Total

5,231

6,632

100.0

6

29.8

63.4

0.1

0.7

11-14

52

1,222

100.0

7.1

32.7

59.4

0

0.7

15-19

144

1,447

100.0

6.9

18

74.4

0.1

0.7

20-24

265

985

100.0

6.5

22.1

70.4

0.4

0.6

25-29

360

705

100.0

5.5

31.1

61.7

0.4

1.3

30-34

374

530

100.0

4.5

39.4

55.3

0

0.8

35-39

380

413

100.0

5.1

35.1

59.1

0.2

0.5

40-44

476

335

100.0

5.7

40.9

52.8

0

0.6

45-49

445

284

100.0

4.9

37

57

0

1.1

50-54

507

237

100.0

4.6

43

51.5

0

0.8

55-59

315

117

100.0

4.3

40.2

55.6

0

0

60-64

392

133

100.0

4.5

39.8

55.6

0

0

65+

1,521

224

100.0

3.6

35.3

61.2

0

0

 


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