As of 2021, employers in Ghana accounted for around 5.21 percent of all employment in the country, registering a slightly higher percentage change compared to the previous year. Overall, many young people in the country manage their personal businesses. The Ghana National Board for Small Scale Industries has envisaged supporting small businesses in order to help reduce the high unemployment rate in the country.
Employers as a share of total employment in Ghana from 2006 to 2021
The source defines employers as "those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs" (i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced), and, in this capacity, have engaged, on a continuous basis, one or more persons to work for them as employee(s).
The source explains that these data estimates are "based mainly on nationally representative labor force surveys, with other sources (population censuses and nationally reported estimates) used only when no survey data are available".
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