13,500 field functionaries have been selected to conduct a trial census in 7,468 enumeration areas, the National Population Commission (NPC) has revealed.
NPC’s Federal Commissioner in Katsina, Bala Almu-Banye said, “the trial census shall cover the 36 states of the federation and the FCT,” and added that six local government areas will be selected from a state in each of the geo-political zones for full population enumeration.
“Forty-five EAs shall be selected each from the remaining 30 states and the FCT. In total, 7,468 EAs have been selected for this trial census to test-run their suitability and readiness for the actual census,” he said.
The commissioner was speaking at the close of the North-West Zonal training for principal trainers for the census exercise. Concerning the workshop training, he said it was a strategy for making sure there is a solid base for the state-level training for the trial census.
He also stated that monitoring and evaluation instruments had been developed to ensure that the exercise focused on predetermined objectives and processes, maintaining that the instruments are to assess the extent to which objectives are being met or otherwise, whether the processes are followed or not.
