{"id":177710,"date":"2022-04-14T20:31:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=177710"},"modified":"2022-04-14T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:31:09","slug":"fg-to-conduct-national-census-by-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/14\/fg-to-conduct-national-census-by-april-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to conduct national census by April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has stated that it is planning to hold a national census by April 2023 after the general election.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed on Thursday by\u00a0Nasir Kwarra, director-general of National Population Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/14\/adulterated-petrol-no-sanctions-for-nnpc-importers-reps\/\">(NPC)<\/a> at the end of the council of state meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>The NPC is expected to conduct a pilot census in June 2022 after political party primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Kwarra said the commission will deploy high technology in conducting the national census.<\/p>\n<p>The NPC boss said through census, data is generated for planning, adding that the data currently being used are \u201cmere projections and obsolete\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very crucial because I have highlighted that the census is a very important exercise for the nation, because through census, we generate the data that we use for policymaking, for planning, for development, by the three tiers of government, and the private sector, they all need this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are in the private sector and you\u2019re producing something, certainly, you need to know the population of an area if you want to create a market there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, census data is very crucial, very important, because the data we\u2019ve been using are just projections, estimations, and are sort of obsolete. We need the actual census data to use for our planning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NPC in December 2020 had said an estimated 206 million people are\u00a0living in Nigeria \u2014 an increase of eight million people in two years.<\/p>\n<p>The commission had announced that the country\u2019s population was 198 million in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s national census was last conducted in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has stated that it is planning to hold a national census by April 2023 after the general election. This was disclosed on Thursday by\u00a0Nasir Kwarra, director-general of National Population Commission (NPC) at the end of the council of state meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. 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