By: VITALIS UGOH, Calabar.
The National Population Commission has concluded arrangements for the third phase of the Enumeration Area Demarcation exercise in Cross River state.
The exercise, which is one of the core activities preparatory to the 2018 population and housing census, will commence from February 20th through March 10th in Etung local government area of the state.
This was disclosed by the Federal Commissioner for Cross River in the commission, Mr. Idi Baba Yakubu, while addressing trainees at the council headquarters on Thursday.
He described the enumeration area demarcation exercise as the foundation for the entire census architecture and will form the basis for the planning and execution of the census project.
Yakubu explained that to ensure a successful enumeration area demarcation exercise, NPC has commenced training for a team of 50 persons recruited, adding that the training programme would last between February 13th to 19th of this month for this and subsequent phases of the enumeration area demarcation in the state.
The NPC federal commissioner said the trained team would be deployed to other local government areas and assured that barring fund constraints, the commission would complete the enumeration area demarcation in all local government areas before the end of this year.
This he said would be well ahead of the first quarter date for the 2018 national population and housing census.
He said the NPC has already demarcated 37 local government areas across the thirty-six states and Abuja, with Calabar municipality in Cross River state under the second phase of the exercise.
He acknowledged the significance of the exercise as beyond the conduct of the 2018 census, pointing out that NPC intends to establish and maintain a national frame-work including locality list and house numbering for future censuses and surveys, in line with its mandate.
He further explained that the commission would deploy sophisticated technology in carrying out the enumeration area demarcation exercise, to achieve full geographic information system compliance, while high resolution satellite imagery would be used to eliminate duplication as well as ensure that no area is left uncovered.
Yakubu assured that the 2018 census would be bio-metric based and will capture the facial impression and fingerprints of persons during the census.
This he said, was designed to discourage anybody or group from gaining undue advantage through manipulation of the EAD since only persons physically seen would be counted and their biometrics captured.
The exercise, which is one of the core activities preparatory to the 2018 population and housing census, will commence from February 20th through March 10th in Etung local government area of the state.
This was disclosed by the Federal Commissioner for Cross River in the commission, Mr. Idi Baba Yakubu, while addressing trainees at the council headquarters on Thursday.
He described the enumeration area demarcation exercise as the foundation for the entire census architecture and will form the basis for the planning and execution of the census project.
Yakubu explained that to ensure a successful enumeration area demarcation exercise, NPC has commenced training for a team of 50 persons recruited, adding that the training programme would last between February 13th to 19th of this month for this and subsequent phases of the enumeration area demarcation in the state.
The NPC federal commissioner said the trained team would be deployed to other local government areas and assured that barring fund constraints, the commission would complete the enumeration area demarcation in all local government areas before the end of this year.
This he said would be well ahead of the first quarter date for the 2018 national population and housing census.
He said the NPC has already demarcated 37 local government areas across the thirty-six states and Abuja, with Calabar municipality in Cross River state under the second phase of the exercise.
He acknowledged the significance of the exercise as beyond the conduct of the 2018 census, pointing out that NPC intends to establish and maintain a national frame-work including locality list and house numbering for future censuses and surveys, in line with its mandate.
He further explained that the commission would deploy sophisticated technology in carrying out the enumeration area demarcation exercise, to achieve full geographic information system compliance, while high resolution satellite imagery would be used to eliminate duplication as well as ensure that no area is left uncovered.
Yakubu assured that the 2018 census would be bio-metric based and will capture the facial impression and fingerprints of persons during the census.
This he said, was designed to discourage anybody or group from gaining undue advantage through manipulation of the EAD since only persons physically seen would be counted and their biometrics captured.
