{"id":393407,"date":"2018-01-21T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393407"},"modified":"2018-01-21T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T09:57:04","slug":"weve-never-serious-collate-employment-data-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/weve-never-serious-collate-employment-data-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We’ve never been serious’ to collate employment data – Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"
Financial analyst and social commentator, Sydney Casley Hayford, has said it is troubling that the country has not been able to put together credible data on the country’s employed and unemployed population.<\/p>\n
According to him, this is something all successive governments have struggled with for a long time.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”txPX4QdHGrNEY3cI9S5hh6huKJQp1k9t”]Speaking on the Citi FM’s<\/strong> analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/strong>, he said governments over the years have failed to get the figures together because they consider it a difficult task.<\/p>\n \u201cOur failure is in thinking that it is a complicated difficult job that we have to keep postponing because nobody can find an answer, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) last government postponed it for 8 years, and they didn\u2019t put any employment statics out there, prior to that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government between 2001 and 2008, they didn\u2019t put out any employment statistics either,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n According to him, this is something government should not be skipping because systems\u00a0are already in place to make the collation of such\u00a0 data much easier.<\/p>\n He stated that the easiest way or the first step, is for government to go to the various universities and get data on the number of people who are have graduated, and from that, they can get follow up to get more information on the number of people a company hires and fires at a point in time.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are systems already designed of how people collect unemployment information and put it out there, at least we will know and should know, how many graduates come out of the university and how many of them are employed, and not employed in a particular year,\u201d Hayford said.<\/p>\n He said such information is critical to how the problem of unemployment will be solved.<\/p>\n Reacting to a question about the number of jobs his government had created at the second media encounter at the Flagstaff House on Wednesday, President Akufo-Addo said, he did not have statistics on the country\u2019s employment data, and that he was unsure it existed.<\/p>\n He, however noted that, the government was in the process of collating it, and it would be ready by the April 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cThe statistics on the jobs\u2026. I am barely one year in office. Some of these statistics are being collected as we speak now so the labour statistics as to the number of jobs that have been created, those are not statistics that are at hand anywhere. Even for the government, I believe that they are in the process of being assembled, so perhaps in 2 or 3 months, we will be in a better position to answer that question in a more effective manner,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n