The National Population Commission, NPC, has begun a trial Post-Enumeration Survey, PES, while calling for support and co-operation from Nigerians to enable it conduct its very first fully digital census in Nigeria in 2023.
The Federal Commissioner of the Commission in charge of Anambra State, Mr. Chidi Ezeoke solicited the cooperation during a press briefing ahead of PES exercise in Awka.
Mr Ezeoke expressed the commitment of the Commission towards conducting a credible and reliable census which result will become a planning tool for national development.
According to Commissioner Ezeoke, PES is a statistical representative survey that the commission will use to check the accuracy of the trial census it conducted previously, which will determine how many people were missed, included by mistake, or counted in the wrong place.
He added that the trial PES, which began on the eighteenth of October 2022 and expected to end on the twenty-ninth of October 2022, will be conducted in one hundred and twenty-seven Enumeration Areas in one Local Government Areas in one state, in each of the six geo-political zones.
Mr. Ezeoke disclosed that the Commission has selected and trained PES enumerators and other PES functionaries in Local Government Areas of the six states where the PES is to take place.
He said that the census will not clash with the general elections as it would be held after the elections and appealed to residents of Anambra to join the commission in bequeathing to the nation a demographic data to assist in solving challenges.
He added that the selected local government area in Anambra state is Idemili South Local Government Area.
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