The Federal Commissioner representing Anambra State in the National Population Commission, NPC, Mr Chidi Ezeoke has flagged off a ten-day zonal level training of principal trainers for the 2023 population and housing census.
While flagging off the programme, Mr Ezeoke said the 2023 population and housing census would be the first fully digital census in Nigeria, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the conduct of the next exercise in April 2023 and that the Commission has made necessary preparations in line with international best practices, to make the exercise a huge success.
The NPC state chairman noted that the current training is the second level before the census, and would be stepped down to the state level where enumerators and supervisors would be trained in readiness for the 2023 exercise.
He also stated that the objective of the exercise was to prepare the second level trainers for a standardized census training, adequately teach them concepts and definitions for the 2023 PHC, provide clear guildelines for the field enumeration procedures for the PHC, provide robust instructions on the use of the census data collection and applications, as well as provide first hand guides for the census field operation.
The Zonal Training Centre Co-ordinator, Dr Samuel Kalu, urged participants to devote maximum attention to deliberations in the training in order to expand their knowledge and understanding of the processes of taking census.
For his part, the Anambra State Director of NPC, Dr Joachim Ulasi, noted that South East has two training centres, one in Ebonyi and Anambra, with Anambra having 260 participants in attendance, adding that they have capable hands for the exercise.
The programme which is currently ongoing at Archbishop Obiefuna Pastoral and Retreat Centre, Okpuno, Awka, Anambra state, attracted participants from the South East zone, among others.
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