We’ve done all necessary preparations for digital census — NPC

By Tobias Lengnan Dapam

The National Population Commission (NPC) said it has done all the necessary preparations for a digital census in the country.
The NPC’s Census Manager, Dr. Inuwa Jalingo, stated this on Sunday in Abuja.
“We have created the necessary system that is required to implement a digital census. Starting from our software development, which we have developed for the enumeration area demarcation. For the success of the census, we have developed systems whereby it doesn’t allow the enumerators go beyond the boundaries in which they are expected to enumerate. So the issue of overlap or under coverage has been taken care of in our planning for this census”.
He added that the commission had enumerated area information of all the 774 local governments in the country.
“We have used various methods to collect the data on all the houses in the country including places where there is insecurity and we are ready to go into those places to conduct the census.”
Also speaking, Dr Isiaka Yahaya, Director of Public Affairs, said, reports at some quarters that the commission’s lack of preparedness was responsible for the postponement was not true.
He said the commission had had done all the necessary work for an effective census.
He said when a date is fixed, the country won’t start all over for census preparation but will continue.