According to the Ghana Statistical Service's (GSS) Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey, 380,000 of the country's working-age population (15 and older) are food insecure, multidimensionally poor, and unemployed.

Government statistician Professor Samuel Kobina Annim said this at a news conference in Accra on Thursday, September 1, 2022. He added that the Savannah area has the greatest proportion of triple-burdened people in Ghana.

This, he claimed, was more than twice as high as the 3.2% national average.

The statistics revealed that between the first and second quarter of 2022, food insecurity dropped by 7.0 percentage points while multidimensional poverty dropped by 2.6 percent points.

In addition, unemployment rate, on the other hand, increased by 0.5 percentage points.

The labour statistics also indicated that about two-thirds of the employed population are engaged in vulnerable employment with significant variation across urban areas (56.4%) and rural (80%).

The Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey (AHIES) is the first nationally representative high-frequency household panel survey in Ghana.

It is conducted to obtain quarterly and annual data on household final consumption expenditure and a wide scope of demographic, economic and welfare variables including statistics on labour, food security, multidimensional poverty and health status for research, policy, and planning.

This gives room for the Ghana Statistical Service to present statistics on labour transitions for the first time.