The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has highlighted education, employment, and healthcare as the primary concerns for voters as the 2024 elections approach.

In its latest report, the NCCE reveals that many voters are particularly focused on issues related to the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy, while younger voters are increasingly worried about job opportunities.

At the report's launch, Dr. Henrietta Sarpong, the NCCE’s Director of Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation, underscored that these areas consistently rank as key priorities for the electorate.

She expressed concern over the persistent issues in these sectors, indicating that they reflect the voters' ongoing dissatisfaction and their demand for better policies and services.

“The top five ranked issues were education, employment, health, roads and infrastructure and issues related to the economy. Those were the top five, the others were the middle, and then we have sports and climate change.

“There’s a lot of talk on climate change and most of you will attest to the fact that Ghanaians are not too cool in terms of climate change and ICT.

“Across regions, we have four regions having the same picture as the national as in the issues that are of concern to Ashanti, Central, Savannah. The others have issues which were different from the top five. Across the issue of Gender, the top five issues we see in this graph are the fact that for education, employment, and health, women and females are more concerned about addressing these issues.

“When it comes to roads and infrastructure, the men are keen on that. When it comes to the economy, and inflation among others, we have more females than males. Then we also try to compare across age groups and we find those within the 20-39 age group.

“I know that population was the highest, but on average, those within the working bracket are very keen about the issues,” he stated.