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UK agency supports 2005 census with N11.3b satellite facility
From Onyedika Nkechi, Abuja
TO ensure effectiveness in next year's census in the country, the United Kingdom's (UK) Department for International Development (DFID), has awarded N11.3 billion (�7.5m) contract for the purchase of satellite imageries needed for the exercise.
The Chairman, National Population Commission (NPC), Samu'ila Makama, disclosed this yesterday at the dissemination seminar on 2004 DHS Education Data Survey held in Abuja.
Makama stated that the commission has enjoyed special assistance from various bilateral and multi-lateral organisations towards the success of the headcount.
He noted that the aim of the seminar is to create awareness and understanding of the 2004 DHS Education survey result among policy makers, civil societies and researchers for the management of education in the country.
According to him, meaningful development can be achieved only when detailed information needed for articulating and evaluating policy implementation is readily available and properly documented.
Makama noted that the survey which focuses on the factors influencing household decisions about children's school attendance provides an up-to-date household-based information on education among children of primary and secondary school age so as to inform development, monitoring and evaluating education programmes in the country.
United States Agency for International Development, (USAID) Mission Director to Nigeria, Ms. Dawn Liberi, explained that the Nigeria Demographic Health and Education Survey (MDHES) status can be used by government and international agencies to evaluate existing programmes and plan new ones for the future.
According to Liberi, the 2004 Nigeria Demographic Education Survey collected data on about 9,700 children between the ages of four to 16 from 4,300 households in the country. The key findings include:
- 60 per cent of primary school age children attend primary schools and that 35 per cent of youth of secondary age attend secondary schools;
- among children aged 4 to 12, about one-quarter can read and about half are able to calculate a sum;
- for children aged 6 to 16 who have never attended school, the most frequently-cited reasons are economic: the household need for child-labour and direct monetary costs of schooling. Those factors are the principal causes for children dropping out of primary school.
The survey also asked parents about how children learn reproductive health. The sources of information most often cited by parents are teachers, parent/guardians, friends, health centres and the radio. Two-third of parents agreed that reproductive matters should be part of the school curriculum.
Virtually all parents have heard about HIV/AIDS. The vast majority of parents (86 per cent) said primary schools should educate pupils on HIV/AIDS.
Liberi stressed that the 2004 NDHES was the first national household survey on education data of its kind conducted in Nigeria.
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