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Title: The perception and usage of weather forecast information by residents of ACP estates and farmers in the Pokuase community of the Ga West municipality of Ghana
Authors: Adjin-Tettey, Theodora Dame
Keywords: Perception;Usage;Weather;Forecast;Farmers;Ghana
Issue Date: 2013
Source: Adjin-Tettey, T.D. 2013. The perception and usage of weather forecast information by residents of ACP estates and farmers in the Pokuase community of the Ga West municipality of Ghana. International Journal of ICT and Management, 1(3): 139-149.
Journal: International Journal of ICT and Management.; Vol. 1, Issue 3 
Abstract: 
The study was undertaken with the purpose
of finding out if people paid attention to weather forecast
segment of television news and whether those who did so
could interpret the information including temperature,
rainfall, humidity and cloud cover figures provided in it.
It was also to find out what other information people
wanted in weather forecasts. Questionnaires were
administered to 240 people including 120 farmers in the
Pokuase area of the Ga West district of the Greater Accra
Region and 120 residents of Africa Concrete Products
(ACP) estates in Pokuase. Results showed that except for
less than one-in-ten (6.7%), all respondents had watched
TV weather forecast. Out of the number less than half
(43.8%) paid attention to it while a similar proportion
(42.5%) paid attention to it sometimes. For interpretation
of forecast figures, temperature was those respondents
understood the most. In all, 70.1% of the people who said
they understood the temperature figures also had tertiary
education, only seven people (8.0%) of those that had the
first cycle education understood confirming the
hypothesis that the level of education of the viewer was
likely to influence viewers’ understanding of temperature
figure
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10321/5681
ISSN: 2026-6839
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