Ghana Card personal identification number (PIN)
ID gh_card_pin
DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft
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Personal ID Number on the Ghana Card, issued by the National Identification Authority. Since April 2021 it is also the taxpayer identification number of individuals. It has three parts separated by hyphens: a three-letter country code of the holder's nationality at first registration (GHA for citizens), an 8- or 9-digit number and a check character, a digit or a letter, whose algorithm is not published.
- Categories
- Personally identifiable information, Person related, Finances and banking
- Countries
- Ghana
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 75/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[A-Z]{3}-?\d{8,9}-?[0-9A-Z]$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| GHA-724915036-4 | Synthetic value of a citizen with a 9-digit number |
| GHA-72491503-K | Synthetic value with an 8-digit number and a letter as check character |
| GH-724915036-4 invalid | The country code has three letters |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Card
- doc: https://www.oecd.org/tax/automatic-exchange/crs-implementation-and-assistance/tax-identification-numbers/Ghana-TIN.pdf
- doc: https://gra.gov.gh/tin/tin-faq/
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gh_card_pin - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/GH/persons/gh_card_pin.yamlon GitHub