On Monday, the National Population Commission (NPC) began teacher training ahead of the trial census scheduled for June.
Commission Executive Chairman Alhaji Nasir Kwarra, who declared the training open in Ado, Nasarawa State,
He said that the Master’s training is a training of trainers towards carrying out a test census, as one of the activities prior to the census.
Kwarra said it was a process in which all census operations were thoroughly and thoroughly tested.
He explained that the census rehearsal, also known as “the census dress rehearsal”, is one of the activities prior to the census.
He described it as “a process in which all census operations are thoroughly and comprehensively tested.”
He said that the process was carried out ideally and as a matter of best practice, one year before the actual date of the census.
According to him, the trial census tests all phases of the main census, from planning to execution of plans,
logistics organization and management and design of questionnaires.
“Others are the format, training procedures, field operations, advertising, payment system, data processing, data
tabulations and analysis.”
He said that the objectives of the exercise are: to critically and comprehensively assess the quality and usefulness of
the Enumeration Area (EA) maps that have been created.
“Second, to determine the possible demographic changes, as well as geographical, that have occurred in the
EA carved between 2016-2018 and its implications for the conduct of the census.
“Third, to determine the feasibility of loading EA maps into the census app for house and household numbering.
listing, as well as the enumeration of the population
“Fourth, to determine the correlation between the estimated AE population and the pretest enumerated population, among others”
Kwarra argued that the quality of the staff for the test census had a big impact on his results.
Therefore, he emphasized the need to properly train facilitators who would in turn train supervisors and enumerators.
at the regional and state level.
The NPC chief reiterated the commission’s commitment to train and retrain staff members in the belief that
help to effectively fulfill its mandate.
Previously, Dr. Ipalibo Harry, Chairman of the Census Committee, had affirmed the commission’s determination to provide credible reports,
reliable and acceptable census.
Harry expressed confidence in the ability of the commission’s staff to conduct the first digital census in the country.