The Ghana Statistical Service commenced Census night on Sunday Night with the enumeration of travellers, people who sleep on the streets and guesthouse/hotel guests. This is necessary to capture all persons resident in Ghana in the Census.

It will also enable the Statistical Service cover all categories of persons in the upcoming census.

Personnel of the Statistical Service were therefore be stationed at lorry stations across the country to count travellers embarking on long journeys.

Explaining the purpose of the Sunday night exercise, Head of the 2021 Population and Housing Census, Owusu Kagya noted that the exercise is expected to end on July 11.