Tain District
| Tain District | |
|---|---|
| country |
 Ghana
|
| region | Bono region |
| Capital | Nsawkaw |
| District shape | common |
| District Chief Executive | ESK Owusu |
| population | 90,933 (2006) |
The Tain District is a district in Ghana . It is located in the center of Ghana in the Bono region . It borders the districts of Jaman North , Jaman South , Berekum , Sunyani Municipal , Wenchi District in the Bono Region, on Kintampo South in the Bono East Region and the District Bole in the Savannah Region . Chief Executive of the district with the capital Nsawkaw is ESK Owusu .
The Tain district was only subdivided by presidential decree of November 12, 2003 in 2004 by dividing the former Wenchi district into the smaller new Wenchi district and Tain.
geography
The district borders the Savannah region in the far north. The border here is the natural course of the Black Volta . Other important rivers are the Tain and the Nyampanie .
A large part of the district is overgrown with wet forest. Bush forest also occurs mainly in the north of the district. The annual average temperature is 24.5 degrees Celsius. Annual maximum temperatures are on average between 30.9 ° C in February to April and 21.2 ° C in August.
population
In 2004, the year the district was established, 85,216 people lived in the district. In 2006 an estimated 90,933 were residents in the district. During this period, the population growth rate was therefore 3.3 percent annually.
A total of 336 settlements are in the district. Only five of these settlements had an urban character, Badu with 11,345 inhabitants, Seikwa (9,196), Debibi (6,427), Nsawkaw (5,569) and Brohani (5,361). All other localities have less than 5000 inhabitants.
The total population is made up of 49.5 percent men and 50.5 percent women. 38.5 percent of the population is under 15 years old. The age group between 15 and 64n years makes up 53.75 percent of the total population, the age group over 65 makes up 7.75 percent. A total of 50,741 people over the age of 18 lived in the district in 2006. Of these, 37.6 percent were not married (single) and 50.3 percent were married. 4.9 percent were divorced and 1.4 percent widowed. Another 4 percent live separately and the survey did not provide any information about 1.8 percent. Although in Ghana a marriage of under 18-year-olds is not permitted by law, statistical surveys have shown that 0.68 percent of under-18-year-olds are married.
With a share of 71.6 percent, followers of a Christian religion in the district are in the majority. 16.07 percent of the population are Muslims, 8 percent are followers of traditional African religions and 4.26 percent do not belong to any religious group. Among Christians, Catholics dominate with 48.2 percent, 30.8 percent are Protestants, and 21 percent belong to a free church. With a share of 69.35 percent, women make up by far the largest share of believers in the Christian religions, only 30.7 percent of Christians are men. A reverse distribution has been shown among followers of Islam and traditional religions.
The numerically strongest ethnic group are the Banafo (also: Banda).
economy
Essentially, the people of the Tain District are farmers or employed in agriculture. 80.2 percent of the employees work in agriculture, 19.8 percent work in other sectors. For example, 1.4 percent work as drivers (including taxis), 9.2 percent are dealers and 0.9 percent run a beer pub.
On average, the people in the district spend 52.78 percent of their income on food. Already 85 percent of the income of an average household is paid out in food or other agricultural products.
education
A total of 81 percent of the children and adolescents in the corresponding age groups were schooled in the district in the 2005/2006 school year. Between Kindergarten and Senior Secondary School , 61.14 percent of boys and 38.86 percent of girls went to school. 6,570 children (3,356 girls, 3,214 boys) were cared for in the kindergartens. This means that the boys make up 48.9 percent of the pupils in kindergarten and 51.8 percent in elementary school. In the Senior Secondary School, 65.2 percent of the students are boys and only 34.8 percent are girls.
A total of 34.7 percent of the teachers in public schools are trained in a specific job, 65.3 percent are outside the subject. In the private schools, all teachers are trained in other subjects.
Constituencies
A constituency of the same name has been set up in the Tain district. Here Joe Danquah won the seat in the Ghanaian parliament for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the general elections in 2004.