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The National Population Commission has said 786,741 workers will be trained for the 2023 census.
In a statement on Monday, the NPC’s Director of Public Affairs, Isiaka Yahaya, said that this set of functionaries would consist of 623,797 enumerators, 125,944 supervisors, 24,001 data quality assistants, 12,000 field coordinators, 1,000 data quality managers, 1639 centre administrators, and 59,000 LGA level facilitators.
The statement read, “In preparation for the conduct of the 2023 Population and Housing Census scheduled to begin from 29th March to 2nd April 2023, the National Population Commission has commenced the training of functionaries for the exercise in all states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory from Monday, January 23, 2023.”
According to the statement, the training which was being organised in stages started with the training of Census Specialised Workforce and facilitators. The first set of people trained was expected to train enumerators, supervisors, field coordinators, data quality assistants, and data quality managers.
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