ethnic groups in upper east region of ghana

It is important to note, however, that although the regional proportions at the various age groups follow the national pattern, there are substantial differences in the magnitude of the proportions between the country as a whole and the region. At the district level, the widowed proportion ranges from 6.8 per cent in Bawku East to 10.9 per cent in Bongo. The region has a large and youthful labour force, which, if properly managed, can become a great economic asset. It is the nerve centre of all commercial activities in the whole of the Northern Sector of Ghana. On the basis of this ideal situation, it would be appropriate to state that one to three person households would be expected to have at least one sleeping room, 4-6 households, at least two sleeping rooms, 7-9 person households at least three sleeping rooms and ten or more person households, at least four sleeping rooms. The need to provide for the economically dependent persons puts pressure on the resources of the region and individual families. The use of such dumpsites varies from about 3.0 per cent in the Bawku West, to about 20.0 per cent in the Builsa, District. The rock types are sandstones, shales, arkose, mudstone beds, conglomerate and limestone. They are . A large increase in the number of women of childbearing ages inevitably means more children (i.e. When the population who have ever attended school is isolated, the levels attained are not significantly different between males and females. The Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education programme (fCUBE) seeks to address four main constraints to the provision of good quality universal basic education in the country. Almost all households in the region (97.5 percent) have some cooking space within the premises of the housing unit. The rock types are mainly phyllites, quartzites, schists and conglomerates. The most prevalent widowhood rites included . sewerage system). The national capital of Accra is also connected to the region by the N2 which terminates in Kulungugu in the Upper East Region. Among these, males (31.0%) are about two and a half times more likely than females (12.4%) to be students, while females (40.2%) are twice more likely than males (22.0%) to be homemakers. About one in three households use well water for drinking and 15.2 per cent depend on natural water sources such as the spring, river, stream or rainwater. The most pressing population and development problems requiring policy formulation and interventions are human reproduction/natural increase issues, young age structure and high dependency burden, high level of illiteracy, especially among the adult population, nonavailability and/or poor access to social infrastructural facilities and services, including electricity and health services, uneven distribution and poor quality educational infrastructure. This is because the upper half is underlain by granites and its subsidiary Birimian metamorphics as compared to the Voltaian mudstones and shales in the southern half of the region. Agriculture, hunting and forestry are the main economic activities in the region. The other significant observation about the age-sex structure is that in the adult age group 20-44, the excess of females over males is higher in Bongo (35.8%), Bawku West (35.8%) and Bawku East (29.9%) than what is observed in the region (25.0%) as a whole. The proportion of households with six persons or more varies from 36.9 per cent in the Builsa, to 68.2 per cent in the Bawku East, District. Drinking water is considered safe or potable if it is obtained from pipe-borne supply in or outside the house or is supplied by tanker or is from manual or mechanized boreholes. The Bongo-Soe Health Centre is being upgraded into a district hospital. The archaeological treasures of the River Sissili Basin, the Whistling and Drumming rocks at Pwalugu and Chiana, the Awologo-Tango at Bongo, wall decoration at Tilli, Kandiga, famous shrines and caves also constitute places of culture and tourist attractions. Agricultural improvement and food security issues have also been addressed. The health and reproductive health specific programmes include the Expanded Programme of Immunization (EPI) and family planning services delivery programmes (importation of contraceptives, distribution of contraceptives), sale of contraceptives, training of communitybased distributors, training of traditional birth attendants (TBAs). Almost all households in the region (97.5%) have some cooking space within the premises of the housing unit, and 82.8 per cent use a space provided for bathing within the house. The main cause of the low girl-child education, especially after the primary school level, is not merely poverty but the extreme poverty of parents (Regional Planning Coordinating Unit, 2003). Public toilets are not even widely used in the region. The regional average is 1.8 persons per room, which is well below the national average of 2.3 persons per room. Other relatives are the second largest group of household members other than heads of households in the region and in each district; another significant group is grandchildren. In the districts, spouses who are separated range from one per cent in Bawku East to 3.4 per cent in Bongo. Agona West Municipal. Climate and Vegetation. Senior secondary schools are even less available than junior secondary schools. It should be pointed out that the problem of improper solid waste disposal is a national concern, and not specific to the region. The Upper East Region is located in north Ghana[5] and is the third smallest of the 16 administrative regions in Ghana. Spouses constitute 12.2 per cent of household members, slightly less than the proportion of heads of household. Programmes, projects and activities that are either population influencing or population responsive include improving and expanding the health of mothers and children (programmes on breast-feeding, ante-natal care, post-natal care, growth monitoring, child survival, safe motherhood), reduction in the incidence of teenage pregnancy and reduction in incidence of child bearing among women older than 35 years. There is high fluoride content in underground water especially in Bongo and Kassena Nankana West Districts. Although less than half of the localities in the region have a primary school within the locality, 32.4 per cent have a primary school within 1-3 kilometres. Burnt by household implies that the household burns the rubbish and Buried by household is the situation where the rubbish is buried inside or outside the dwelling unit. Below is a list of ethnic groups in Ghana and where they migrated from. In Bawku West, the major occupations of working children include agriculture and related workers (92.5%), services workers (3.3%), and sales workers (2%), and production, and transport equipment workers (1.9%). Unpaid family workers form the next highest group (14.0%) and ranges from 6.4 per cent in Bongo to 18.3 per cent in Bawku East, followed by 18.2 per cent in Kassena-Nankana and 17.2 per cent in Bawku West. The region has three Midwifery Schools and one State Registered Nursing School. The dry season starts from November and ends in April and is characterized by cold, dry and dusty harmattan winds. The Mole-Dagbani ethnic group comprises the Moshi (Mossi), Mamprusi, Nanumba and Dagomba.There are more than 450,000 Mamprusi living in Ghana, and approximately 11,000 in Togo. The total number of rooms occupied by the household includes sleeping rooms. The proportion of female95 headed households ranges from 11.3 per cent in the Bawku East, to 35.7 per cent in the Bongo, District. When the household disposes solid waste indiscriminately in the bush, along streets, at abandoned or uncompleted building sites or riverbanks, the method is termed Dumped Elsewhere. Within the districts at least 10 per cent attained JSS/SSS level except Bongo (9.7%) and Bawku West (8.6%). In Bawku West, 81.6 per cent of localities are 25 kilometres or more away, while in Builsa, the proportion is 68.9 percent. With only 15.7 per cent of the population living in urban areas, the region is the least urbanized in the country. With administrative capital known to be Navrongo, Kassena/Nankana municipality lies within the Guinea Savannah woodlands. Even in Bolgatanga, with the highest proportion (19.5%) of households using electricity, 78.1 per cent use kerosene for lighting. Consensual union or living together is not a common practice in the region. Bongo has an age dependency ratio of 107.4 and 44.8 per cent of its population below 15 years. It was carved out from Talensi-Nabdam and now has its administrative capital as Nangodi. East, the proportion is 68.2 per cent while it is 67.4 per cent in Bolgatanga and 64.2 per cent in Kassena-Nankana. The fact that a little above three in four adults are not literate is unfortunate and must be a challenge to reduce the level. Furthermore, the relatively lower proportion of widowed men as compared to women reflects the higher level of mortality among men and also suggests that men are more likely than women to remarry upon the death of a spouse (Ghana Statistical Service, October 1999). Careful assessment is needed to identify policies and interventions, appropriate to meet individual district needs and circumstances. The already documented policies, programmes, projects and activities are extensive and comprehensive enough to meet the needs and priorities of individual districts, sub-districts and communities. This means that the formal sector constitutes only 25.4 per cent of the economy of the region and this has implications for tax revenue mobilization. The Fanti people of Ghana perform Apatampa, a Ghanaian dance. Currently, there are over 70 ethnic groups in the country. The three districts together have 85.6 per cent of all the available medical staff. Among the districts, Bolgatanga (27.7%) has the highest effective literacy level with 34.2 per cent for males and 22.0 for females. The not economically active (aged 15 years and older). "Gur." Niggli, Urs and Idda Niggli, editors.. Three-quarters (74.5%) of those who have attended school in the region reached only primary or middle/JSS levels. The Regional Health Directorate is responsible for the overall health service planning, organisation, monitoring, supervision, evaluation and provision of technical support to districts. The three account for a total of 75.2 per cent of the industrial activities of the economically active population (aged 15 years or older). At the district level, the age structures for the sexes follow the regional pattern. There are two main irrigation projects, the Vea Project in Bolgatanga covering 850 hectares and the Tono Project in Navrongo covering 2,490 hectares. In order to effectively protect the environment and fight desertification, tree planting programmes should be intensified. The Akan, Gurma, Ewe, Ga-Adangbe, Mole-Dagbane, and Guan are the chief ethnic groups in Ghana. Seven out of ten (71.0%) are in the private informal sector. The Upper East Region is located in the north-eastern corner of Ghana and bordered by Burkina Faso to the north and Togo to the east. The regional picture, however, changes depending on the base district of the ethnic groups. The population density of the region is higher than the national average. Kassena-Nankana has an age dependency ratio of 87.8 and a dependent population of 40.5 per cent below 15 years and 6.1 per cent 65 years and above. The region celebrates various festivals from the divers ethnic groups throughout the year, most of which are either to bring a good planting season or celebrate the harvest. There is a long spell of dry season from November to mid February, characterized by cold, dry and dusty harmattan winds. There are six major ethnic groups in Ghana's population. It is the language officially used in the government, in business communications, and in education as a medium of instruction. Mud/mud brick/earth (88.2%) and cement or concrete (8.4%) are the two main materials for the construction of the outer wall. The region as a whole is poorly served with telephone facilities. The population is primarily rural (79%) and scattered in dispersed settlements. Regarding population, the Upper East Region is the ninth-largest region in the country. Intercensal growth rates and changes in population densities between 1984 and 2000 are not available for the districts, because Ghana changed from the local authorities system of administration to the district assembly system in 1988. The lowest (27.3%) is in Kassena-Nankana. Almost two thousand (1,627) hand pumps (boreholes) and a number of hand-dug wells serve a majority of the rural populations. . These draw a lot of tourists to the region. Naturalized Ghanaians constitute 5.3 per cent and the rest are non-Ghanaians. Climate migration, language policy, and language preservation in the upper regions of Ghana The second major religion is Christianity, constituting of 28.3 percent; it is not predominant in any district. The proportion of these localities ranges from 8.9 per cent in Bongo to 25.8 per cent in Bolgatanga. In the new system, instructions start in English. Literacy in English only, or English and a Ghanaian language, varies from 12.2 per cent in the Bawku West, to 27.7 per cent in the Bolgatanga, District. At the district level, Bawku East has the highest proportion (77.3%) of the 6 years and older who have never attended school (91.3% males and 82.7% females). Bongo is a more compact district, in terms of land area, than Bolgatanga. Rice, groundnut, millet, maize, and clay can be found in the municipality. In a region where people seem to be very concerned about privacy during bathing (82.8% have use of a space provided within the house), privacy for toilet facilities seems not to be an important issue, even though this has more serious implications. The Upper Region was later apportioned into Upper East and Upper West in 1983 during the PNDC rule. There are only seven urban centres in the region. Primary school is the highest level attained by 52.4 per cent in the region. These three factories are not operational and have been earmarked for divestiture. A partial explanation may be that several of the ethnic languages are only spoken and not written. The Ministry of Educations accessibility policy goal is to provide one primary school facility within a travel distance not exceeding 3 kilometres and one JSS facility within a travel distance not exceeding 5 kilometres. Bono East Region: districts, towns, tribes, languages, culture. Migrants from the two adjacent regions (Northern and Upper West) are concentrated in three districts namely, Bolgatanga, Bawku East and Kassena-Nankana. The private sector, made up of the private formal (21.2%), private informal (74.0%), NGO/International Organizations, and others (0.2%) provides employment to 95.4% per cent of the working population in the region. The Kusasi make up about one in five of the regions population whereas the Mamprusis make up less than two percent. The combined proportion of these industrial activities is significant only in Kassena-Nankana (13.1%) and Bolgatanga (19.8%). This is also reflected in a national inter-censal increase which is 2.5 times that of the region. Among the males, the proportion that had never attended school was 75.6 per cent in 1984, but reduced to 64.0 per cent in 2000. For liquid waste disposal, the picture is not any better. It cannot be said that such a person has never migrated because he/she was counted at the locality of birth. Even though the regions population growth rate of 1.1 per cent is much lower than the national rate of 2.7 percent, it should nevertheless be of much concern because of the low level of employment and low level of exploitation of available resources within the region to sustain the population. Only 2 districts in the region (Bolgatanga and Bawku East) have levels of urbanization above the regional level; one district has a level close to that of the region (Kassena-Nankana), and (Builsa and Bongo) are entirely rural. The Demography of Ghana describes the condition and overview of Ghana's population. 4. The eligibility for this question is based on the average age of menarche and also on the practice in some parts of the country where girls as young as 12 years old could be given in marriage (Ghana Statistical Service, March 2002). Over 90 per cent of households in Builsa (92.7%), Bongo (90.7%) and Bawku West (91%) use the kerosene lamp. The municipality was established by Legislative Instrument (L.I) 2103. Psychologist advises bondholders to look up to Higher Being in Domestic Court remands two persons for destroying teachers farmland, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital ordered to refund GH36,000 unearned salaries. There are four district hospitals which provide first level referral services. Three districts, Bolgatanga, Kassena-Nankana and Bawku East, contain 75.0 per cent of the regions total population. The picture is the same for all districts and for both sexes. The relatively large number of doctors in Kassena-Nankana may be due to increased recruitment into the Navrongo Medical Research Centre, where even though the doctors may be doing more research work and less direct patient consultation and treatment, they are known to undertake some clinical and surgical activities in the course of their research. Shea butter, rice, stones, and tomatoes are some of the endowments found there. Some urban centres however decreased in population (e.g., Navrongo, Paga). It occupies a total land surface of 8,842 square kilometers or 2.7 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. Additionally, Talensi-Tongo, Gurune (fra fra)-Bolgatanga, and Nadams-Nangodi are part of its ethnic groups. The Kassena and the Nankani, who make up 15.7 per cent of the regions population, together make up 88.3 per cent of the population of Kassena-Nankana. The proportion literate in a Ghanaian language (i.e. The proportion of household members who are heads of households is 14.8 per cent in the region compared to 18.3 per cent for the country. It is frequently seen at festivals, funerals, and weddings. There are more rooms available to each household in the region than in the country as whole. Potential investors therefore have a lot to gain since the region has a great potential for commercial livestock and poultry rearing. Nowadays, however, it is performed by men dressed as women. 2). Mobitel (Millicom) currently has no service in the region, but expects to operate from Bawku from early 2004. Quantitative procedure USAID will work with Congress to provide $50 million for the fund, the first-of-its kind private sector . Thus, it is fertility that is the overriding factor in determining an age distribution. The majority (54.5%) of them are boys. Numerous ethnic groups and communities in the country are also present in the cultural field. The traditional practice of early and almost universal marriage is reflected in the fact that the proportion of the total population, aged 15 years or older, who have never married varies from 18.5 per cent in the Bawku West, to 28.1 per cent in the Bolgatanga, District. The proportional share of the two materials ranges from 92.6 per cent in Kassena-Nankana to 97.4 per cent in Bawku West. The two materials account for over 95 per cent of materials used in each of the districts. Nationality. The substantial lack of formal sector office-based bureaucratic activities in the region and in the districts is reflected in the fact that the proportion administrative/ managerial and clerical related workers in the region make up only 1.7 per cent of the active population. The regions total ever married is higher than what is observed for the country as a whole where only two out of every three (68.1%) have ever married. While that recorded for under 20 years was 52.6 percent. A high proportion of the population in the districts aged 15 years or older had married. The regional picture however changes, depending on the base district of the ethnic groups. The yield of this aquifer is related to the thickness of the weathered mantle and the nature of the topography. This is most manifested between the . The Tarkwaian Rock Formation underlies about 2% of the region and it is found mostly in the Bolgatanga Municipal and the Bongo District. The working children are almost entirely in the private informal sector and are either selfemployed without employees (63.1%) or are unpaid family workers (29.8%); about five per cent are employees. Builsa South district to the West, Bolgatanga community to the East and Burkina Faso to the North are part of the areas the community shares boundaries with. 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Also, it shares boundaries with Bawku West district, the Republic of Togo, Burkina Faso, and Garu community to the North, East, West and the South respectively. Ashanti means "because of war." Because of the gold and the presence of Lake Volta, the Ashanti people built an empire in 1670. Less than two per cent of the population aged 15 years or older are reported as separated (1.6 %). The main industrial activities are agriculture including hunting, forestry and fishing (92.8%), wholesale and retail trade (2.1%), private household (2.2%) and wholesale and retail trade (2.1%). The age structure for the sexes shows that in the region, there are more females than males. Housing quality is far poorer in the region than for the country. In terms of bathing space, 82.8 per cent of households in the region use space provided for the purpose within the house, while 15.5 per cent use the open space around the house/compound and 1.3 per cent use either a public bath house or a bathroom in another house. Thus put together the proportion of females in the region (19.8%) with primary and middle/JSS is lower than that for males (26.1%). On the other hand, the proportion of female temporary heads is highest in Builsa (94.2%) and lowest in Bongo (59.4%). The three major industrial activities at the national level are agriculture, including hunting and forestry (49.1%) wholesale and retail trade (15.2%) and manufacturing (10.9%). Festivals such as the Feok, Samapiid, Azambene, Gologo, and Fowl are celebrated by the people of Builsa, Bawku East, Bongo, Bolgatanga-Tongo and Kassena-Nankana. The region has 11 districts with a total population of 702,110. The district has no hospital, but the clinic is soon to be upgraded into a district hospital. It shares boundaries with Togo to the East and Burkina Faso to the North. https://www.modernghana.com/author/AbongoMashoodAjene, Rock formation in the Tongo Hills near Gorogo. At age 70 and older, there is a preponderance of males than females. Post office facilities are very few in the region, and are limited almost entirely to the district capitals. The Western Region - Sekondi. Thus, the uses of charcoal and firewood have serious implications for the environment. Only 0.6 per cent of localities within the region have a telephone facility, varying from 0.3 per cent in Bolgatanga to 3.8 per cent in Bongo. About two-fifths (43.2%) of households occupying one sleeping rooms are over-crowded and 18.4 per cent of all households with two sleeping rooms are over-crowded. Upper East. About one in four of the births (22.8%) occurs to mothers aged 15-24 years compared to 17.1 per cent to mothers aged 40-49 years. This is contrary to the observed national pattern of more females at the older ages. The proportion of boys (76.5%) and girls (77.9%) who are in pre-school is about the same. In each district and at almost every level, more boys than girls are enrolled; Builsa is the exception, where the majority of pupils are girls. The proportion of households occupying five or six rooms ranges from 13.7 per cent in Kassena-Nankana to 26.6 per cent in Bawku West. Bongo (10.3%), Builsa (6.5%) and Bawku West (6.1%) are the least attractive destinations of migrants. The differences between the districts in the use of roofing materials. Comparison of socio-economic indicators at the national and regional levels. versttning med sammanhang av "Upper Regions" i engelska-svenska frn Reverso Context: Marriage ceremonies among most ethnic groups in the Northern and Upper Regions of Ghana seem to be the same. The proportion males (58.5%) and females (64.5%) currently married are also higher than the national average of 48.1 per cent males and 51.6 per cent females. For instance, at the national level, there is a sharp drop of 13.1 percentage points from age 15-19 (104.2%) to age 20-24 (91.1%). The distribution of children by occupation, industry, and employment status and institutional sector generally follows closely the pattern of the adult population in each district. The Nabdam who form 30.5 per cent of the regions population, make up 94.2 per cent of the population of Bongo and 83.8 per cent of the population of Bolgatanga. It is only in Bongo that the proportion of the working force, aged less than 40 years, is lower than 60 per cent (59.4%). Readand find out facts that you probably didn't know here. The major occupations in the region are agriculture and related workers (66.4%), production and transport equipment workers (14.7%), sales workers, (9.6%), service workers (4.0%) and professional, technical and related workers (3.8%). The Akans perform the Adowa dance, which gets its name from the movements of the antelope (Adowa). As an increasing number of children mature and enter the reproductive years, the number of women in child bearing ages 15-49 years will increase. Western, Central, Eastern and Brong Ahafo regions) of Ghana -regions that are relatively more prosperous than those in the northern part of the country (i.e. Nearly a third (29.7%) are production and transport equipment workers, while about a tenth are services workers (5.0%) and sales workers (4.6%). The Upper East Region is an excellent tourist destination in its own right, offering visitors an exciting introduction to Ghana. The capital is Bolgatanga, sometimes referred to as 'Bolga'. Teledensity (phones/per 100 populations is very low in the region (0.1) compared to the national density of 0.7). For instance the proportion of the population aged three years and over that have no schooling or attended only pre-school is 75.7 per cent in the region compared to 47.7 per cent in the country as a whole. Kassena-Nankana has several institutions of higher learning, a world-renowned Health Research Centre and a flourishing irrigation project (Tono) that attract migrants with the requisite technical expertise. note: data represent population by ancestry Djibouti Somali 60%, Afar 35%, other 5% (mostly Yemeni Arab, also French, Ethiopian, and Italian) Dominica Private communications centres have sprung up, especially in Bolgatanga, Navrongo and Bawku. The use of open space around the house is higher in the region (15.5 percent) than in the country as a whole (8.6%). The slight increase in the urban share of the population has been due mainly to increase in population of existing urban centres. The occupational structure of the region is thus not very diverse. In the north, especially in the Upper West and Upper East Regions, some widows were required to undergo certain rites to mourn or show devotion to a deceased spouse. First, the people should be educated on the need to send the girl-child to school and have her retained for a better future for the girl, the parents and the entire society. Kassena-Nankana follows with 25.0 per cent of doctors, 19.1 per cent of nurses and 17.8 per cent of all medical staff. The district picture does not differ from the region as a whole. Don Festival of the people of the Upper West and Upper East regions of Ghana. Household sizes are generally large in each of the districts. Copyright 2020 - CWSA - Baked by Proweb Solutions, The Upper East region is located in the North Eastern part of Ghana covering a total area of 8,842km2. The Akan. The proportion literate in a Ghanaian language (Ghanaian language only and English and Ghanaian language) is 8.3 per cent compared to the proportion literate in English only (14.4%). The private informal sector, especially agriculture and small-scale industries, is the largest source of employment in the region. It lies between longitudes 1 o 25'W and 2 o 50'W, and between latitudes 9 o 35N and 11 o. Topography and Drainage The Upper East region is located in the North Eastern part of Ghana covering a total area of 8,842km2. The Upper East Region is underlain by two main geologic formations: the Pre-Cambrian Basement Complex and the Paleozoic Consolidated Sedimentary Formations. Markets abound for these crafts in countries such as Britain, Germany and the USA. The Ewe ethnic group is found throughout the Volta region, extending into Togo. With a population of 920,089, this results in an average household size of 6.4 persons and an average of 1.6 households per house. Bolgatanga has the lowest age dependency ratio of 86.6. . On the basis of lithology and field relationships, the Voltaian is sub-divided into three sub-groups: Upper, Middle (Oti and Obosum) and Lower Voltaian (Basal Sandstones). Similarly, in Bawku East, among households with nine or more rooms, 56.8 per cent have ten or more members. A brief summary of findings is presented before discussing possible interventions. In the light of the fact that the region has the highest proportion of ever-married population in the country, the rather low levels of separation and divorce in the region are an indication of stable relationships. The paper examines conflicts in Northern and Upper East regions of Ghana from the perspective of identity crisis in an ethnically heterogeneous section of the country. Notable among them are: Naa Gbewaa Shrine at Pusiga, Paga Crocodile Pond, Sirigu Pottery Women and Traditional Arts, Tongo Rocks and Tengzug shrine. For the remaining households, the facilities available include a gutter in front of the house (21.1%) on the street/path in front of the house (39%) and the compound of the house (34.6%), (Ghana Statistical Service, 2002). Translate texts with the world's best machine translation . Gbewaa College of Education, Pusiga mud, mud bricks/earth, and cement/concrete) account for 95.8 per cent of materials for the floor of dwelling units as well. 6. The data shows that within each district, three out of every four persons (74.5%) who had ever attended school attained primary or middle/JSS level. The implications of the female excess for sexual and reproductive behaviours should also be a matter of great concern even after taking into account the mitigating effects of the practice of polygamy. The KPLE dance is performed to communicate with the gods and bring good fortune to the people. About a tenth (7.3%) are service workers and 2.7 per cent are sales workers, with 2.3 per cent in production and transport equipment work. The population as of 2021 was 31,732,129. The fractured zone aquifer is the deepest of the three aquifers. Be the first to get hottest news from our Editor-in-Chief, Check your email and confirm your subscription. In the region and in each district, females constitute the higher proportion of the not economically active population because of the greater proportion of females who are homemakers. The size of each segment has implications for the demand for social services, future population growth, youth unemployment, the overall dependency burden, as well as the total working force of the district. In the region as a whole, children of head of household constitute 42 per cent of household members. In 1984, 82.3 per cent of the population aged 6 years or older had never attended school and this proportion dropped to 69.4 per cent in 2000. Upper East is one of the ten regions of Ghana. Less than two per cent are reported as being in such a union. In the region as a whole, the pupil/teacher ratio at the primary school is 1:50.6. About 14.0 per cent use pipe-borne water or a tanker service and 36.6 per cent use water from boreholes. These are, traditional birth attendants (TBAs), who play the role of midwives, especially in the rural areas, faith healers, who operate from religious movements and derive their healing powers through faith in a Divine Being, fetish priests, including indigenous priests and priestesses of shrines, ritual and cult leaders, and herbalists. Instruction in Ghanaian schools is in both English and Ghanaian languages. The mean number of children ever had born to women, aged 40-49 years, ranges from 5.0 in the Bolgatanga, to 6.1 in the Bawku East, District. The population is primarily rural (84.3%) and scattered in dispersed settlements. The land is relatively flat with a few hills to the East and southeast. What makes the Akan ethnic group different are language, food, dance, dressing, festival, traditional leaders and occupation. At the JSS level, the proportion of trained teachers is 80 percent, ranging from 71.7 per cent in Kassena- Nankana to 94.4 per cent in Bawku West. The proportion of households using these methods of disposal is below 90 per cent in only Bolgatanga and Bawku East. Linguists classify Ghanaian tribes as belonging to one of two major ethnic groups in Ghana: the Kwa and Gur groups, which are members of the Niger-Congo linguistic family. The proportions in Builsa (63.5%) and Bawku West (63.8%) are about the same. Ghana Ethnic Groups: FraFra Frafra Bibliography about this language: Grimes, Joseph E., editor. Light bills from Bongo and Zebilla systems amounting to the tune of Ghs150,000.00 is still outstanding. The main occupations in the region in order of magnitude are, agriculture and related work (65.9%), production and transport equipment work (14.5%), sales work (9.5%) service work (3.9%), and professional, technical and related work 3.8 per cent. Ghana is an African nation located on the continent's western edge, and it spans an area of roughly 92,497 square miles. Demographic characteristics The distance to the nearest doctor therefore depends on how far the patient is away from the health facility. Volta, Northern, Upper East and Upper . It could also reflect a better understanding of the concept of household and therefore a better identification of households within the residential structures. Sex composition. The situation with toilet facilities is different. Lack of tools for technical works as staff have to constantly search for tools to fix basic faults like constant pipe bursts. It is celebrated in the month of April by the people of Manya and Yilo Krobo in the towns of Krobo Odumase and Somanya, in the Eastern Region, located some 80 kilometers north of Accra. The regional total fertility rate (TFR) of 4.0 and the mean age of child bearing (33 years) implies a continuous child bearing throughout the reproductive periods. Being the largest urban centre in the region, the Bolgatanga municipality's administrative capital is Bolgatanga. While some ethnic groups still exist and practice their cultures, others have disappeared due to urbanization and other factors. About one in five (20.8%) attained middle/JSS, and about one in eight (12.5%) attained secondary/senior secondary. Maximum temperatures between March and May is about 45OC, with minimum temperatures of about 13OC occurring between December and January. Both of these require careful and thorough preparation. In all districts, at least two out of every three of the economically active population are selfemployed without employees. The same pattern is observed in each district. The proportion widowed is much higher for females (13%) compared to males (3%), a threefold increase. The high correlation between levels of education and positive health and other social indicators makes education a very important variable in any development planning at the district level. Administrative and Managerial capacity is extremely limited in the districts, accounting for not more than 0.2 per cent in any district. The long-term objective of the program is to develop the manpower for research and development in the region by providing the skill sets for future scientists who are easily recruited in prominent positions in Egypt and the region. The volume of migration is generally low for both migration within the region and migration from outside the region. These consist of 37 (55.2%) government owned, 24 (35.8%) mission institutions and 6 (9%) private facilities. No exploitation of this mineral has been carried out yet. Bawku West to the East, mother District Talensi to the South, Bongo community to the North, and Bolgatanga community to the West are the areas the community shares boundaries with. Erosion is a problem. Altogether they provide employment to about 6,000 small-scale farmers. Almost all of these children are engaged in agriculture (77.9%), production and transport equipment (9%), service work (8%) and sales work (4.4%). Thus, this should be an incentive to potential investors. High bacteriological contamination is prevalent across all districts in the region with high fluoride content in most parts of Bongo district and some part of Bolgantaga municipal assembly. However, Ghanaian languages and other foreign languages are also taught in school in the Basic Education level. The economically active are young and thus available to work for several years. The community shares boundaries with Builsa community to the South, Burkina Faso to the North, Kassena-Nankana East community to the East and Sissala East community to the West. The mean annual rainfall during this period is between 800 mm and 1.100 mm. This rock formation is considered to be of shallow water continental origin, derived from the Birimian granitic complexes and has been subjected to low-grade metamorphism. 31.6 per cent of households use well water for drinking and the remaining households (18.1%) depend on natural and man-made water sources such as spring, river/stream, rain water and dugout to collect rain water. Kusasi/Bisah-Bawku, Zebilla, Garu, Pusiga The differences in the proportion which are in the effective functional literacy category and the proportions literate in a Ghanaian language may also imply that literacy is acquired mostly in the classroom setting than through the existing adult education or functional literacy programmes. The region has about 18 per cent of the cattle and 9 per cent of the small ruminants in the country. The three major industrial activities are Agriculture, including Hunting and Forestry, Wholesale and Retail trade, and Manufacturing. The regions population is not evenly distributed among the six districts. This area has vast lands and suitable soil, which if properly exploited, would give high yield of rice. Employees and the self-employed with employees (who could be taxed at source) make up less than a tenth in every district except the Kassena-Nankana (10.5%) and Bolgatanga (13.8%). Bawku West has the highest proportion of ever-married persons (81.5%) followed by Bongo (79.5%), with the lowest (71.9%) in Bolgatanga. The Upper West Region is at the North-Western corner of the country. The age structure of the region differs slightly from the national picture in terms of the broad age groups 0-14 years, 15-64 years, and 65 years and older. Navrongo has 35 pay phone booths and 45 communication centres and Bawku has 44 pay phone booths and 65 communication centres. They speak the Ewe language. Ethnic groups in Ghana make up the majority of the country's inhabitants. Information collected on health facilities was only on the physical availability, distance to the nearest facility and personnel in the facility such as doctors, nurses and traditional healers. Whereas in the country as a whole, only 20.2 per cent have access to no facility, in each district of the region, at least three out of every four households have no toilet facility (use bush, farm, etc). Sex composition and sex ratio Of the 14 clinics/health centres in Bawku East, 4 are mission facilities while the rest are government-owned. The age composition of the population aged 15-64 years shows that each district has a potentially large and youthful workforce (15-39 years), which if properly managed, can become a great economic asset for the region. All other methods of disposal are put into the category Other. In the country as a whole, 71.4 per cent of households use one or two sleeping rooms, compared to 61.8 per cent that have one or two rooms. According to Daaku (2018), many African peoples, such as the Yoruba (Nigeria), Bakuba (DR Congo), and Baganda (Uganda), hold festivals in one form or another wherein the past is vividly brought into the minds of the living ( Persaud, 2011 ). A higher proportion share bathrooms in the country (separate bathroom shared and open cubicle shared) than in the region. Chiana, Binaba-Kusanaba and Pusiga do not have permanent water system staff offices. In most cases, accessibility is determined more by the individual students and/or parental preferences and/or affordability, than by the proximity of the institution. The Dagbanli and Mampelle languages of Northern Region for instance, are mutually intelligible with the Frafra and Waali languages of the Upper East Region of Ghana. The Agbadza dance consists of five motions: the Banyinyi, Vutsotsor, Adzo, and Hatsatsa. The Upper East is the only region in which adherents of traditional religion are close to one-half of the population. . Bawku East has Bawku, an ancient trading town and the main entry point into Ghana from Northern Togo and Southern Burkina Faso, as its capital. Migration flow is very low. Except in a few towns, majority of the inhabitants live in rural areas with subsistence farms around their houses. Even though spring and well water can sometimes be cleaner and clearer than piped water, which can be contaminated at various stages of distribution after treatment, for the purpose of this discussion, potable or safe water will be defined in relation to only treated pipe-borne water and boreholes. The community is blessed with millet, shea butter, maize, and gold, among others. The overall regional pattern is again repeated in Bongo. The reasons for this substantial imbalance may be that one woman dying results in only one male widowed in a monogamous marriage or no widow at all if the man is polygamous. The bedrock-weathered zone interface (quartz-veined aquifers) aquifer, which is the third major, is found in bedrocks. Whereas in the country as a whole 20.2 per cent had no access to any specific facility, 78 per cent of households in the region have no facility. The district was carved out from Bawku municipal and stood alone in 2012. Government owns 7 of the 8 clinics in Kassena-Nankana while in Bongo 1 of the 6 clinics is a mission health centre. Akans are the dominant inhabitants and natives of Eastern region and Akan, Ewe, Krobo, Hausa and English are the main spoken languages. It lies between longitude 0 and 1 West, and latitudes 10 30N and 11N. It is a multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious country. There are substantial variations in the proportional distributions of distance to nearest post office facility between the districts. Do we have gold in Volta Region? There are also maternity homes and nine dressing centres. Leatherworks are carried out at areas around Bolgatanga and the surrounding villages. Located in the North-Eastern section of the Upper East Region, the municipality shares borders with the Republic of Burkina Faso to the West by Talensi district. It is bordered to the north by Burkina Faso, the east by the Republic of Togo, the west by Sissala in Upper West and the south by West Mamprusi in Northern Region (Figure 1). Females head only about one-fifth (22.2%) of households in the region compared to the rate of about one-third (31.3%) for the country. Three districts, Builsa, Bawku East and Bawku West have occupancy ratios of 1.7 persons per room, while Kassena-Nankana has the highest ratio of 2.0. For the majority of households (82.6%), the facility is either a public dumpsite or elsewhere at their convenience (Ghana Statistical Service, March 2002), where waste treatment may not be efficient or even exist. Following the Catholics (57.7%) are the Pentecostal/Charismatic groups (21.7%) and Protestants (12.3%). Between ages 20 and 64 years, there is a higher proportion of females (45.1%) than males (36.8%), while those 65 years and older are 6.8 per cent males compared to 5.9 per cent females. District Assemblies in the region face problems in identifying, prioritizing and implementing policies and interventions specific to their districts and communities. The proportion of the not economically active that is students ranges from 13.0 per cent in Bawku West to 22.5 per cent in Bolgatanga. About a fifth (16.6%) of the not economically active attribute their status to old age, while about 3 per cent each attribute it to a disability or the fact that they are on retirement/pension. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always . The Upper East regional capital is Bolgatanga, sometimes referred to as Bolga. Population distribution (rural-urban composition). How many ethnic groups are in Ghana? Thatch made from grass (43.1%), corrugated metal (18.2%) and mud/mud bricks (31.3%) are the three main roofing materials in the region. Much of literature and mass communication is in English. Two-thirds of the members of the Assembly are directly elected. There has been frequent bursting of pipelines in the first seven systems even though the region continues to fix them. The five together make up 97.6 per cent of all occupations. Almost one half (46.4%) of the population are Traditionalists, followed by Christians (28.3%) and Moslems (22.6%). About one tenth (11.6%) of localities in Bawku East are 25 kilometres or more from the nearest clinic or maternity home. The weathered zone aquifer is found within the regolith which comprises a top soil and highly weathered mantle or saprolite. The rural population was 87.1 percent in 1984 and 84.3% in 2000. An investment in this sector (especially in basketry, leather works and smock weaving) in the form of the injection of capital would help expand production to meet the growing demand for these crafts outside the country. The low level of population movement in the region is reflected in the fact that the proportion of the population born outside the locality of enumeration is not significantly different in the districts. Major Ethnic Groups Of Ghana Akan Ashanti or Asanti are the largest subgroup of the Akan people. The socio-cultural problems that can arise as a result of the ethnic diversity of Bawku East often manifested in the many ethnic conflicts in the district. It is worth noting also that in the region, between 46 and 58 per cent of households with ten or more persons have six or more sleeping rooms. There are even fewer junior secondary schools (JSS) than primary schools in the region. Employees and the self-employed with employees (who could be taxed at source) make up only 9 percent. The age distribution however, is not much affected by changes in mortality, because mortality reduction, in general, does not relate to one or more specific age groups but affects the whole population. Also, water supply in only Bolgatanga municipality is mainly from the Vea Dam, whiles the pipe-born water systems in the other townships make use of mechanised boreholes. cub foods parmesan bow tie pasta recipe, vlocity dataraptor documentation, first colony middle school schedule, father mike schmitz almost married, fantasy sentence examples, john dustin wilson, emily brent quotes with page numbers, candied mint leaves dehydrator, jesse meighan chris thile, plus size off shoulder ruffle top, neil mitchell brother, things to do in wynwood, miami at night, what is the highest recorded temperature for whittier, ca, grosir kaos polos murah 10 ribuan, 2001 honda shadow 600 specs,

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