National Population Commission (NPC) says its first pre-test exercise will commence from June 6 to June 13 in 112 local government areas across the federation.
Chairman of the Commission, Alhaji Isa Kwarra said this at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday.
The pre-test exercise is a critical part of census planning process which provides the opportunity to test all aspects of the census programme and instruments in advance of the main census activities, thus ensuring smooth operation and success of the census.
Kwarra explained that the conduct of the pre-test exercise was aimed at testing the census methodology, the questionnaires and data collection methods.
According to him, the exercise is aimed at testing the manuals for field staff, instruction manuals, data editing and coding, data processing and tabulation in preparation for actual census.
“In the pre-test exercise, some selected Enumeration Areas (EAs) in some of the local governments in states of the federation demarcated between 2016 and 2018 will be utilised.
“And the census instruments will be deployed to these areas to test run their suitability and readiness for actual census,” he said.
