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Youth and Oil & Gas Governance in Ghana - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ...

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<strong>Youth</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Oil</strong> & <strong>Gas</strong> <strong>Governance</strong> <strong>in</strong><strong>Ghana</strong>only 600,000 liv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the Upper West Region. If the questionnaireshad been distributed equally, the answers from the lesserpopulated regions would have had a greater <strong>in</strong>fluence on the totalnumbers which would have distorted the results of the study.Therefore a distribution key for the questionnaires was created accord<strong>in</strong>gto the population percentages of each region. As a result,the quantity of questionnaire varied from one region to another.In effect, 1212 questionnaires were sent to Ashanti Region, whileonly 161 were adm<strong>in</strong>istered <strong>in</strong> the Upper West Region.It was mentioned before, the researchers aimed at gett<strong>in</strong>g answerswhich cut across the youth of <strong>Ghana</strong>. This means that thesurvey could not only be conducted <strong>in</strong> the bigger cities but also<strong>in</strong> smaller towns <strong>and</strong> rural areas. The adm<strong>in</strong>istrators of the studyfrom FES <strong>and</strong> you-net therefore identified one village, one districtcapital <strong>and</strong> the capital city <strong>in</strong> each region to distribute the questionnairesfor each region. For example, <strong>in</strong> Greater Accra, 364questionnaires each were completed <strong>in</strong> Mallam, Tema <strong>and</strong> CentralAccra.46

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