•Begins training of functionaries
In preparation for the conduct of the 2023 Population and Housing Census scheduled to begin from 29th March to 2nd April 2023, the National Population Commission has announced that the total number of seven hundred Eighty-six thousands,seven hundred and fouty-one(786,741) workers have been hired to conduct the exercise.
The commission added that the training of functionaries for the exercise in all states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory had commenced from Monday, January 23, 2023.
In a statement on Monday, the NPC’s Director of Public Affairs, Isiaka Yahaya, said that this set of functionaries would consist of 623,797 enumerators, 125,944 supervisors, 24,001 data quality assistants, 12,000 field coordinators, 1,000 data quality managers, 1639 centre administrators, and 59,000 LGA level facilitators.
According to the statement, the training which was being organised in stages started with the training of Census Specialised Workforce and facilitators.
The first set of people trained was expected to train enumerators, supervisors, field coordinators, data quality assistants, and data quality managers.
The commission also noted that the training includes self-learning study and online training with monitored simulated hands-on and in-person classroom and hands-on trainings.
The statement added that the functionaries were to be trained on census forms, census applications, data capturing processes, interpersonal communication, and basic troubleshooting of Computer Assisted Personal Interviews.
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“To ensure that the data collected are of high quality, the commission has recruited and trained Data Quality Managers and Data Quality Assistants on the deployment of maps, data validation, and monitoring of the census dashboard,”the statement read in part
The NPC called on all Stakeholders to support the commission in ensuring a successful census.