By Faith Awa Maji
As part of preparations for the scheduled 2023 population census, the National Population Commission (NPC) on Thursday in Daura, Katsina State, commenced a trial Post Enumeration Survey (PES) in Daura, Katsina State.
Briefing reporters on the development, the NPC Federal Commissioner, Bala Almu Banye, explained that, “the Post Enumeration Survey is a statistically representative survey that the National Population Commission will use to check the accuracy of the Trial Census conducted in July, 2022.
“The PES will allow the Commission to determine how many people were missed, counted twice, included by mistake, or counted in the wrong place.
“The conduct of the trial PES is an integral part of the preparatory activities for the conduct of a successful census in 2023.
“The Commission is placing premium importance on this exercise.
“As you know, a population census is the official enumeration of all persons in a country at a specific time.
“This encompasses the collection, compilation, evaluation, analysis, publication and dissemination of demographic, social and economic statistics relating to the population.”
“The PES therefore has been designed to redress these possible errors in the census process.
“The results of the comparison are mainly used to measure coverage and content error in the context of the Census.”
“This Trial PES exercise is in line with the United Nations Principles.”
The trial PES will be carried out from 20th to 31st October, 2022 and will be conducted in 127 Enumeration Areas across Nigeria.
