National Population Commission begins trial enumeration survey in Anambra

The National Population Commission (NPC), has begun a trial Post-Enumeration Survey (PES), in Awka, the Anambra state capital.

While calling for support and co-operation from Nigerians to enable the commission conduct its first fully digital census in 2023, NPC’s Federal Commissioner in charge of Anambra State, Mr. Chidi Ezeoke

expressed the commitment of the Commission towards conducting a credible and reliable census which result will become a planning tool for national development.

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According to Mr Ezeoke, he said “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 October 18, 2022 and expected to end on October 29,2022, will be conducted in one hundred and twenty-seven Enumeration Areas (EAs) across the six geo-political zones.

Mr. Ezeoke disclosed that the Commission has selected and trained PES enumerators and other PES functionaries in Local Government.

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 state to join the commission in bequeathing to the nation a demographic data to assist in solving challenges.