ABSTRACT The application of foreign life table in Sub-Sahara Africa had been a major concern all over the world. However, assessing the error for applying the foreign life tables as well as analysing the impact of the leading causes of death on Ghanaian longevity had not been studied. This study aimed at assessing the error of applying Foreign Life Tables in Ghana and analysing the impacts of the leading causes of death in Ghana. A cohort data of 3260 were collected from the University of Gha...
ABSTRACT This study compares the performances of ARIMA, ARCH, GARCH, EGARCH and GJR-GARCH on their abilities in modelling and forecasting the volatility of world cocoa bean prices on the London Intercontinental Futures Exchange using weekly averages of prices in Great Britain Pounds from January 1985 through December 2017. It seeks to ascertain whether a model that provides a good in-sample fit necessarily provide the best out-of-sample forecast, in the midst of other models. A number...
ABSTRACT This study is concerned with the evaluation of the price levels of food items in various markets across Ghana. The objective was to determine the main dimensions along which to identify specific markets in which items are high-priced and those that are low-priced. To this end, data on prices in 2008 of fifteen food items in 100 selected markets from all the regions of the country were obtained from the Statistical, Research and Information Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agri...
ABSTRACT Rainfall and temperature are important climatic factors for crop production and affects humans’ basic needs such as health, shelter, food and water in Ghana. However extreme rainfall causes flooding which can lead to loss of lives, properties among others. Extreme temperature also causes drought, hot and cold spells among others which have adverse implications on human beings and agriculture. It is therefore important to know about occurrences of such extreme events and thei...
ABSTRACT Choice of university education in Ghana is a competitive exercise for senior High School students. Choosing it requires consideration of various factors. The motivation for the study is to measure high school students’ perception of the University of Cape Coast. To this end, the study focuses on various factors. The objective of the study therefore is to determine the latent factors that are considered by the...
ABSTRACT Stillbirth remains a public health problem with an estimate of 2.6 million stillbirths in 2015 of which 98% occurred in low- and middle-income countries and over three-quarters of these occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and south Asia. Further, only ten countries carry the burden of over 65% of total stillbirths in the world including Nigeria in the second position. The objective of this analysis is to estimate stillbirth rates and identify the determinants of stillbirth in Haji...
This study explores determinants of child mortality in Kenya using the 2008/09 Kenya demographic and health survey (2008/09 KDHS) data. Cox proportional hazard model is used and stratification method was used to handle the non-proportionality of the hazards. Kaplan Meir log rank test is used to explore the data and determine the significant variables that have association with child mortality to be used in the model. The study establishes that there is improvements in child survival over the...