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- Nigeria is getting ready to conduct its first Digital Census in May 2022
- This was disclosed by Nasir Isa Kwarra, Nigeria’s head of the National Population Commission (NPC)
- The NPC chairman a few months ago, had started visiting the governors of the 36 states of the federation to create public awareness on the upcoming census
- The last census was held 15 years ago. New instruments and methodology will be introduced for the population count to make the process easy and reliable. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa
Nigeria is getting ready to conduct its first Digital Census in May 2022. This was disclosed by Nasir Isa Kwarra, Nigeria’s head of the National Population Commission (NPC).
The NPC chairman a few months ago, had started visiting the governors of the 36 states of the federation to create public awareness on the upcoming census. The last census was held 15 years ago. New instruments and methodology will be introduced for the population count to make the process easy and reliable. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa.
Pre-test exercises started last year. It has completed the Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) exercise that involved dividing the entire country into small units easily covered by a team of enumerators during the census. A pre-test is not the actual census but a pilot to gauge readiness for conducting the actual census. The earlier census, conducted back in 2006, estimated that the country has 140 million population. But this estimate was contested by some groups. People in the southern states claimed that estimate had been manipulated to favour the north. The final date of census has to be approved by President Muhammadu Buhari., which in all likelihood will commence in May 2022.
