The types of industry of employed persons 15 years and older are shown in Table 4.4. The highest number of employed persons is in agriculture, forestry and fishing industry (81.3%), followed by those in wholesale and retail (5.5%) and manufacturing (3.4%). However, the proportion of males in agriculture, forestry and fishing (84.7%) is higher than that of females (77.8%); while wholesale and retail; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles employ more females (8.3%) than males (2.8%). The professional scientific and technical activities (0.1%), and Water supply; sewerage waste management and remediation activities employ less than one percent of males and females in the district.

Employment Status

Employment status refers to the status of a person in the establishment where he/she currently works or previously worked.

Table 4.5 shows data on the employment status of population 15 years and older by sex. The table indicates that, majority (70.8%) of the population 15 years and older are self-employed without employee(s). Another 16.8 percent are contributing family workers and 5.5 percent are employees. Only 3.2 percent are self-employed with employee(s). Self-employed without employees is the main employment status for both males and females in the district. The second largest employment status is the contribution of family worker with the female’s proportion (20.2%) a little higher than their male (13.5%) counterparts. The proportion of male employees (7.4%) is more than double the female (3.5%) employees. Males (3.0%) are six times more likely to do casual work than females (0.5%), while females (0.9%) are also three times more likely to work as domestic employees than males (0.3%).

Employment Sector

Employment sector refers to the sector in which a person worked. Figure 4.2 presents data on the employed population 15 years and older by employment sector and sex in Nkoranza North. According to the figure, the private informal sector is the major sector of employment in District, employing 95.6 percent of the employed population 15 years and older followed by the public sector (3.1%), the private formal (1.1%), local and international NGOs (0.2%) and semi-public/parastatal (0.1%).

Table 4.6: presents data on the employed population 15 years and older by employment sector and sex. The private informal sector employs a higher proportion of the females (96.5%) than males (94.6%); while the public and private formal sectors employ higher proprotion of males (3.7%) than females (2.4%). There is almost equal participation of males and females (0.1% and 0.2%). in the semi-public/ parastatal and NGOs (local and international) employment sectors. The District did not record any male or female engaged in other international organizations employment sector.