A statistician is a math expert who uses huge amounts of data to figure out how likely it is that something will happen, like your chances of winning the lottery.
Below is the Statistician Salary in Ghana
The salary range for the majority of workers in Mathematicians, actuaries, and statisticians – from GH₵986.93 to GH₵6,049.82 per month.
Tasks and duties of Statistician in Ghana
Studying, improving, and developing mathematical, actuarial, and statistical theories and techniques
Advising on or applying mathematical principles, models, and techniques to a wide range of tasks in the fields of engineering, natural, social, or life sciences
Conducting logical analyses of management problems, especially in terms of input-output effectiveness, and formulating mathematical models of each problem usually for programming and solution by computer
Designing and putting into operation pension schemes and life, health, social and other types of insurance systems
Applying mathematics, statistics, probability, and risk theory to assess potential financial impacts of future events
Planning and organizing surveys and other statistical collections, and designing questionnaires
Evaluating, processing, analyzing, and interpreting statistical data and preparing them for publication
Advising on or applying various data collection methods and statistical methods and techniques, and determining the reliability of findings, especially in such fields as business or medicine as well as in other areas of natural, social or life sciences
Preparing scientific papers and reports
Supervising the work of mathematical, actuarial, and statistical assistants and statistical clerks
What qualifications do statisticians?
To become a statistician one needs to obtain a bachelor’s degree in statistics.
For this, a person should have passed the 10+2 examination with Mathematics.
Statistics can also be taken up in post-graduation.
To be eligible for this one has to be a mathematics graduate with statistics in at least two semesters.
Is it hard to get a job as a statistician?
It’s quite easy for a statistician to become a data scientist, probably even the easiest field to start from, but one shouldn’t assume that a degree in statistics automatically makes a data scientist.
What jobs can a statistician do?
Statisticians develop or apply statistical theory and methods to collect, interpret, organize, and compile numerical data. Organizations use statisticians’ work to solve problems in fields including biology, agriculture, business, and economics.