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Cost
By Cecilia Ologunagba
Abuja, Sept. 19, 2016 (NAN) The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says it needs N1.2 billion to conduct Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS 5) scheduled to start on Wednesday nationwide.
The Statistician-General, Dr Yemi Kale, made announced this on Monday in Abuja while addressing newsmen at the inauguration MICS 5.
MICS is a household-based survey developed by UNICEF and designed to assess the situation of children and women in the areas of health, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS worldwide.
Kale was represented by Mr Isiaka Olarewaju, the Director in charge of Real Sector and Household Statistics Department in NBS.
He said UNICEF was number one supporter in the execution of the survey, adding that other agencies had also joined in funding the project.
Speaking on the cost on MICS 5 (fifth series), Kale said, “before we got to this level, we did a lot of things in preparation for the survey.
“Last year, we did the compilation and update of the unit of coverage.
“Without mentioning the cost of preparation activities, we have estimated N1.2 billion for data collection right from the cost of training.
“It also includes the trainers and training the field workers up to the data processing level.’’
According to him, objectives of the survey include providing up-to-date information on the situation of children and women in Nigeria.
Kale said that the survey would strengthen national statistical capacity by focusing on data gathering, quality of survey information, statistical tracking and analysis.
“The survey will contribute to the improvement of data and monitoring systems in Nigeria.
“It will strengthen technical expertise in the design, implementation and analysis of such systems.
“It will also serve as baseline for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda and provide statistics to complement and assess the quality of data from recent national surveys.
“Lastly, it will provide statistics to complete and assess the quality of date from other national surveys,’’ the statistician-general said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that MICS 5 will cover all the 36 states and FCT with 960 selected households to be interviewed in each state.
The MICS 5 will be completed on Dec. 16. (NAN)
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(Edited by Olagoke Olatoye/Idris Abdulrahman)
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