In lieu of its previously announced census session for 2023, the National Population Commission (NPC) has made an open announcement that it will be recruiting three million ad hoc staff for the 2023 population census.
Abdulmalik Durunguwa who is the NPC National Commissioner representing Kaduna State had made this disclosure. The official spoke on Wednesday in Kaduna at a town hall meeting on the trial census.
Durunguwa had also announced that the website for the recruitment would be opened in September for interested applicants.
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He said the trial census, which would run till the end of July, was a dress rehearsal for the 2023 population and housing census. Durunguwa solicited the support and cooperation of all stakeholders towards the success of the exercise.
“The 2023 census is going to be different from previous ones”, NAN quoted him saying.
“We are going to conduct a census that is uncontestable and acceptable by all
“We will minimize human error to the barest minimum with the use of technology.
The National Population Commission (NPC) has also begun household listing and building numbering in the Daura Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State.
Daura has been listed among the six LGAs nationwide which would be covered 100 percent during the trial census, in preparation for the 2023 population and housing census.
Alhaji Bala Almu-Banye, the NPC’s Federal Commissioner in charge of Katsina State, said the exercise was in line with the approval of the Federal Government for the conduct of a trial census. Responding to newsmen shortly after the stakeholders’ meeting in Daura, he explained that the trial census was a dress rehearsal to test the methodology for the main census to be conducted in April 2023.
“It is imperative to note that information collected from the trial census will not form the basis of the result of 2023 Population and Housing Census.
“As part of the exercise, enumerators are expected to visit all residential and non-residential buildings within their Enumeration Areas (EAs).
“And also, they are expected to number the buildings and list the number of households in the buildings.
“The trial census will only be conducted in selected areas, and a total of 7,718 EAs have been selected to test-run suitability and readiness for the actual census in 2023.”