asamoahkwadwosomuah-hash/Reginal-literacy-analysis

Regional literacy analysis using Ghana's 2021 Census — maps urban/rural and gender gaps across all 16 regions, and tests (and rejects) a link to youth NEET rates. Python, pandas, matplotlib. # Ghana Regional Literacy & Education Access Analysis **A national-development data analysis project — Python, pandas, matplotlib — using the 2021 Population and Housing Census to map regional, urban/rural, and gender gaps in literacy across Ghana.** ## Business/policy context Literacy is one of the most basic building blocks of human capital, and is often assumed to sit upstream of other development outcomes — including the youth NEET rates analysed elsewhere in this portfolio. This project uses Ghana's most authoritative source — the **2021 Population and Housing Census** — to answer: *where in Ghana is literacy lowest, is it primarily a rural or gender gap, and does it in fact track the youth exclusion patterns found elsewhere in this portfolio?* That last question is posed as a hypothesis to be tested, not assumed — and it does not survive the test (see Key Findings). **Dataset:** Table 5.1 from the GSS's 2021 PHC Volume 3D: Literacy and Education — literacy status (population 6 years and older) broken down by all 16 regions, urban/rural locality, and sex. This is a full national census, not a survey sample, so it's the most complete and authoritative regional dataset available for this topic. ## A note on data provenance As with the other GSS-sourced projects in this portfolio, this dataset was **manually transcribed** from an official published table (GSS does not provide it as a downloadable CSV). It was validated by reconstructing the national literacy rate from all 16 regions' raw counts — the reconstruction produced **69.8%**, matching the report's own stated headline figure exactly. ## Business/research questions answered 1. Which regions have the highest and lowest literacy rates? 2. How large is the urban-rural literacy gap, nationally and by region? 3. How large is the gender gap in literacy, and does it vary by region? 4. Does regional literacy actually predict youth NEET, when tested across all 16 regions? 5. Where is the largest illiterate p …