As part of the preparation for the first fully digital census in 2023, the National Population Commission (NPC) said it will commence a trial census in Anambra State, Southern Nigeria on Wednesday.
Gatekeepers News reports that the commission said the exercise will take place in all the seven designated towns including Akwukwu, Awka-Etiti, Alor, Nnokwa, Nobi, Oba, and Ojoto in Idemili South Local Government Area of the state.
The Federal Commissioner, representing the state, Chidi Ezeoke, made this known while addressing journalists at its office in Awka, on Tuesday.
Ezeoke said the exercise, known as “census dress rehearsal”, is a key preparatory activity for the main census slated for April 2023.
The commissioner added that the commission has trained 1,146 enumerators and local government supervisors to conduct the exercise in the above-mentioned Local Government Area of the state.
According to him, the trial would be conducted in all the 7,718 selected enumeration areas across the country to test run suitability and readiness for the actual census in 2023.
Ezeoke explained that the exercise would provide the commission with the opportunity to test every aspect of census operations.
He stated that this includes planning to implementation, logistics arrangement, and management, questionnaire design and format, training procedures, fieldwork operations, publicity, payment system, data processing, data tabulation, and analysis.
