Adeyemi Adeniran, the Statistician-General of the Federation has disclosed that the Agency is carrying out a survey that measures more than 40 Sustainable Development Goal indicators across the country.
Adeniran made this disclosure to journalists alongside officials from the National Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF Nigeria when he visited enumerators on the field in the Idi-Oro Mushin area of Lagos on Monday.
The survey, known as the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, seventh edition, is a collaborative effort with UNICEF, led by NBS. It aims to assess the well-being of women, men, children, and adolescents throughout the country.
“We are here in Lagos State to carry out what you call a monitoring exercise, to go around the enumeration areas where our team of enumerators and supervisors are collecting data for the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey round seven that we are doing throughout the state of the Federation. This is one survey that is very important for the country, not just to have data, but because it has to do with the welfare of women, men, children and adolescents,” he said.
“We also have in that survey not fewer than 40 indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals, which are also captured in that survey. So, it is important to plan for the welfare, for the socio-economic welfare of the citizens,” he asserted.
“We want to see the level of cooperation that our field staff are getting from the respondents. And we also want to examine whether the enumerators are carrying out the interview in the manner and guidelines that are stipulated for them during the training,” Adeniran said.
“We also have data editors at the headquarters that are also checking the data that they are getting on a daily basis, looking at what areas need improvement, and they are giving them feedback on a daily basis to improve on it.”
“One of the key challenges that we observe is that the children are in school now. So, whenever our enumerators go around to collect data, the children are not around, which necessitates them always coming back late in the evening. We require a certain number of under-five children… because they are very, very important. The data we are collecting on this category of respondent is so important for their health, for their education and for their growth,” he maintained.
