The Kwara State Director of the National Population Commission, NPC Alhaji Sa’eed Yusuf says building numbering and household listing will commence by April 17, 2023 before the actual census exercise.
Yusuf said that the building numbering and household listing was part of the census exercise and would be for five days, after which there would be another training before census proper.
According to him, there will be five days training for enumerators and supervisors between April 25 and April 30 in their respective Local Government Areas for the success of the exercise.
Speaking on the training of enumerators that was supposed to hold on March 31, the director said that it could not hold due to lack of logistics but however, disclosed that the training had been fixed for April 11 and would last for seven days.
The director stated that the actual people enumeration and housing census would start on May 2 to May 7, while May 1, would be for census eve, 0:00 hours.
The training of Data Quality Managers was held on April 3 and April 4, for those that would manage data, server and Personal Digital Assistant, PDA while the training of the Special Work Force that would assist the data managers had also begun and would end on Friday.
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