The National Population Commission (NPC) in Bauchi state has begun a state-level training workshop for field personnel to be engaged for a census in preparations for the conduct of the 2023 population and housing census.
Declaring the training open, its federal commissioner in Bauchi state, Ibrahim Mohammed Darazo, said the 12-day workshop “is to equip the field functionaries with the required skills to effectively and efficiently deliver on the exercise.”
He said a total of 110 consisting of facilitators, supervisors and enumerators drawn mainly from communities within the selected areas had been selected for the trial census through a transparent recruitment process.
“The trial census is to be conducted from July 11-14, 2022. The house numbering will take place from July 11-16, to be followed by validation of Enumeration Area frame from July 17-19, and enumeration of persons from July 20-24, 2022. The trial census, which is a dress rehearsal, is to evaluate all aspects of the census operations before the main census on a limited scale.
“The specific objectives are to assess the quality of the EA maps, determine requisite educational qualification for enumerators, estimated workload of the enumerators, logistics support for the main census among others. The Trial census in Bauchi will be conducted in one supervisory area in nine local government areas of the state with three LGAs selected in each of the three senatorial districts,” he said.
