2023 Census Will Provide Reliable Data For Local Governance, Planning –NPC Chair

The chairman National Population Commission (NPC), Hon Nasir Isa Kwarra, has said the 2023 census will produce reliable data that will promote local

This is just as he said Nigeria’s inability to conduct a population census in the last 16 years has created an information vacuum “as the data from the last Census conducted in 2006 has been rendered less useful for planning purposes”.

He stated this while speaking as the special guest of honour at a presidential dinner in honour of graduands of senior executive course 44 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Abuja organized by the Alumni Association of the National Institute with the theme “Strengthening Local Governance in Nigeria”,.He said “Sustainable development must be grassroots oriented and must proceed from bottom to top.

He noted that the theme of the dinner coming at a time when preparations for the conduct of the 2023 Population and Housing Census are in top gear, fits perfectly into the commission’s mandate to provide accurate and reliable demographic data for evidence based local governance in Nigeria. “Data from the 2023 Census will not be produced only at the national and state levels but will be disaggregated up to wards and localities level.

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