Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, has stated that workers in the public sector are often compensated for their efforts.
According to the Government Statistician, public sector workers are paid twice as much as private sector workers.
As a result, he has proposed the establishment of a Public Productivity Committee of Parliament, which would function similarly to the Public Accounts Committee in ensuring that ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) and the public sector as a whole produce output that is commensurate with their earnings.
Prof. Annim, who gave his first lecture at the University of Cape Coast last Thursday, noted that while public sector workers' pay were approximately GH3,420, the sector's production averaged about GH1,420, less than half of the earnings. "What individuals make should be equivalent to their work and what they spend," he said, adding that something was fundamentally wrong and that such disparities should be bridged in the country's pursuit for true progress.
He stated that public servants' tenures in such institutions and organizations should be renewed or canceled based on the achievement of goals.
Prof. Annim believes that workers should be held accountable for their labor.
Lecture given for the first time
Prof. Annim is an economics professor at the University of Cape Coast and is now on secondment as the Government Statistician. He is committed to supporting knowledge transformation across Africa and the rest of the world.
The topic of his first lecture as a full professor was "Data Policy Transitions: Economic Variables Perspectives."
Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, the university's Vice-Chancellor, presided over the meeting.
The college of academics welcomed the new professor into their fold after the presentation, confirming his full professorship. Integrity of data
Prof. Annim emphasized the significance of developing a data integrity framework (DIF) for the country based on factors such as the appropriateness, dependability, and credibility of data, statistics, and statistical data.
He noted that indicators and measures were frequently altered, resulting in inconsistent data from international organizations and state data institutes, which influenced policy choices in some cases negatively.
Politicians and organizations have used many indices and indicators to create statistics, according to the development economist, based on their interests and convenience.
He went on to explain that there were still enormous discrepancies between international data sources and those utilized by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), other agencies, and civil society organizations in the country, claiming that such groups chose data that suited their arguments.
"Sometimes you find statistics in national policies that aren't even compatible with the data we have from our MDAs," Prof. Annim said, adding that it was past time to clean up the data landscape and apply the necessary bias adjustments so that policy could be properly influenced.
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