The National Population Commission (NPC) has announced plans to carry out an updated exercise of Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in some previously demarcated local government areas in all the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
A statement by the Acting Director, Public Affairs of NPC, Isiaka Yahaya, Thursday said the exercise would be in furtherance of preparation for the 2022 Population and Housing Census.
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Yahaya stated that the objective of the EAD updating exercise was to bring the EA maps up to date with the current realities on the ground using the latest EADPad application and updated methodology to recapture and analyze the rate of change in the EA.
He said: “The EAD updating exercise will cover LGAs previously demarcated under phases 3 to 9A between February 2017 and January 2020 covering 170 LGAs across all the states of Nigeria and the FCT.
“The fieldwork for the (EAD) updating exercise will commence from March 5, 2022, to April 1, 2022.”
He added: “The completion of roads and buildings vectorisation exercise will also be carried out simultaneously with the EAD updating exercise.”
