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WEEK 6
TOPIC: NATIONAL POPULATION CENSUS
CONTENT:
- Meaning of Population Census.
- Importance of Accurate National Population Census
SUB TOPIC 1: MEANING OF NATIONAL POPULATION CENSUS
Meaning of National Population Census -Taking statistical record of people living in a particular area or a country is very important. This is vital for the development planning of any given society.
Population census is the periodic and simultaneous house to house head count of the people living in a particular area or country at a particular period of time by the officials of the national population commission.
Population census is the procedure of systematically collecting, acquiring, recording and keeping information about the members of a given population. It is a regular and official statistical record keeping of people, houses in a particular area or country.
Population census is the head count of people in a place at a particular time, within a given period. Census is expected to be conducted regularly at every ten years interval.
The census data is commonly used for the following:
- Research purpose
- Population control
- Population management and planning
The first population census in NIGERIA was conducted in 1962/63; census was again conducted in 1973 and also in 1991.
The last population census conducted in NIGERIA was in 2006 which estimated Nigeria population figure to be ONE HUNDRED and FORTY MILLION (140.000 000) people, though there was an argument that Nigeria population census figure was wrongly estimated based on the following.
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