NPC flags-off 2018 demographic, health survey in Yobe

The Federal Commissioner, National Population Commission (NPC) in Yobe state, Mohammed Baba Makkau has flagged off the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS).
Addressing journalists yesterday in his office in Damaturu, the Federal Commissioner who was represented by the state director of theCommission, Saidu Dzarma Chara said, the objective of the DHS is to collect high quality data for policy formulation, programme planning, monitoring and evaluation.
“The 2018 Nigeria DHS is being conducted by the National Population Commission, the agency statutorily mandated to generate demographic data for national planning in collaboration with the federal ministry of Health.
As the implementing agency, the commission is primarily responsible for the planning, analysis and dissemination of the survey results,” he said.
Makkau further said the sample for 2018 NDHS consists of a total of 1,400 clusters with each state and FCT having 37 clusters with the exception of Lagos and Kano states which have 53 clusters respectively.
Blueprint gathered that a total of 40,567 women and 12,056 men will be interviewed in the survey.
The Federal Commissioner said series of training programmes have beenput in place to ensure that the staff acquires the necessary skills apart from the adequate logistic arrangement for deployment to selected local government councils.
The exercise which is to last for four months, will gather data on maternal and child health, maternal mortality, violence against women, immunization, nutrition, breastfeeding among others.