Kogi State Director of the Nigeria Population Commission (NPC), Abiodun Ojo Titus, yesterday said the organisation has launched the 2023/2024 edition of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey, NDHS, in the state.
The state Director of NPC disclosed this to journalists at a press conference in Lokoja.
Titus stated that the project is being funded by agencies such as UNFPA, USAID, BMGF, and ICF as well as FMOH, SFH, NBS, and the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs.
He stressed that the five-year project is designed to assist institutions in collecting and analysing data needed for planning, monitoring, and evaluating population, health and nutrition programmes.
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The state NPC boss stressed further that a vigorous fieldwork exercise involving data gathering and mapping has commenced in some selected clusters in 18 out of 21 LGAs in the state.
He said, “The survey is targeted at women between the ages of 15 and 49 and 15 and 59 for men.
“The current edition of the survey is the 7th in the series, and it is aimed at providing information on population, fertility, family planning, marriage, maternal and child health, child survival, HIV/ Aids, reproductive health and nutrition, and other related issues of gender, domestic violence, tobacco, and alcohol consumption in the country.”
He added that the survey would improve data collection, analysis tools, and methodologies, stressing that the survey would significantly help to disseminate information relating to the utilisation of data.
