The National Population Commission (NPC) has begun training of functionaries for the forthcoming 2023 Population and Housing Census nationwide.
The census has been scheduled to begin from March 29 to 2nd April 2, 2023.
The training of the functionaries which began on Monday is being organised in stages.
According to a statement signed and issued by the Director, Public Affairs of the commission, Isiaka Yahaya, "The training of Census Specialized Workforce (CSW) and facilitators who will in turn train enumerators, supervisors, field coordinators, data quality assistants and data quality managers."
The statement reads: "The training includes self-learning study, online training with monitored simulated hands-on and in-person classroom and hands-on trainings.
"The functionaries are to be trained on census forms, census applications, data capturing processes, interpersonal communication, and basic troubleshooting of Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI).
"Other focus topics during the training include dispute resolution and basic use of excel.
"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 total number of functionaries to be trained and deployed for the 2023 Census is 786,741 consisting of 623,797 enumerators, 125,944 supervisors, 24,001 Data Quality Assistants, 12,000 Field Coordinators, 1,000 Data Quality Managers, 1639 Training Centre Administrators and 59,000 LGA level facilitators.
"The Commission calls on all stakeholders to support it to conduct the census successfully."
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