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2023 Census: All Local Governments Will Be Captured – NPC Assures

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Despite the instability in many regions of the nation, Nasir Kwarra, Chairman of the National Population Commission, has pledged that the 2023 census will be held in all local government districts.

According to news reports, 527 local government districts out of the nation’s 774 councils registered security breaches between January and August 21, 2022.

However, speaking at a trainers’ session in Abuja on Monday, Kwarra stated that insecurity would not prevent the commission from conducting a successful exercise.

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He stated that, in addition to working with security agencies and state and municipal governments, the commission intended to use residents in areas plagued by insecurity.

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Kwarra said, “We have reached a point of no return with the commencement of the training for the trainers. It is good to say we have reached the peak of the preparatory activities.

“Those areas ravaged by insecurities are still part of Nigeria. We are working with government at the various levels as well as the security agencies to ensure we capture everybody. Even if it will take us to use the locals in those troubled areas to carry out the capturing, we will.

“We will also seek the cooperation of the citizens, Nigeria needs accurate data to plan for every aspect of our lives.“

He also said in preparation for the 2023 census the commission had introduced new technologies that would ensure the exercise is credible.

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“In preparation, we have introduced new technologies such as CensusPAD and CSPro to ensure that the 2023 population and housing census is credible, reliable and acceptable.

“The geospatial and infrastructure data as well as the enumeration form shall be uploaded on the tablets, also called personal digital assistants, which are ultra-portable computers that can run a variety of software programs.

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“Based on the above, the data collection in the 2023 population and housing census shall be done through computer assisted personal interviews.”

 

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