National Agricultural Sample Census 2022

Community Listing

THE TRAINING OF FIELD STAFF

The NASC training was conducted at two levels. The first level was a national level training-of-trainers (ToT), which took place at the Public Service Institute in Abuja. The training lasted for 5 days (the 20th-24th of June 2022). The last day of the training was utilized for field practice, where the trainees were taught on how to locate enumeration areas using the pointer in the Google Earth application to navigate and trace the boundaries of the EA, and collect information on the buildings and households in the EA.

Participants at the first level of training included the following:
· Trainers/Monitors (National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS) (formally Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD)) and the National Population Commission (NPC)).
· State Officers (NBS)
· Coordinators (NBS, FMAFS AND NPC)
· Facilitators (NBS)

The second level training was the Training of Enumerators (ToE), which took place in all the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). There were eighty-two (82) training centers nationwide. The state-level trainings were held over a period of six days (29th of June-5th July, 2022) including five days of training, and one day of field tests.

Participants at the state training level include the following:
· Enumerators/Interviewers (NBS, FMAFS (formally FMARD), State Agriculture Development Programme (ADP), State Bureaus of Statistics/State Statistical Agencies (SBS/SSA)
· NBS State Officers
· NBS Zonal Controllers
· Trainers/Monitors
· Coordinators
· Statistician General of State Bureau of Statistics/Directors of State Statistical Agency
· Staff of State Ministry of Agriculture
· Independent Monitors

DATA COLLECTION

Two teams were constituted in each LGA. A team comprised of one team lead and one teammate. Permanent field staff of National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) served mostly as team leads. Enumerators were also drawn from relevant stakeholders from Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), both at the federal and state level. The two enumerators had separate CAPI devices and they both served as listers and mappers. The two interviewers worked simultaneously in the same EA. They located together the boundaries of the EA and identified all of the buildings therein and numbered the building accordingly. Following this, they split the buildings into two, with one interviewer covering the buildings with odd numbers, while other covered the buildings with even numbers. This was to avoid omission or double counting within the EAs. Interviewers were expected to spend two and a half days for both the household listing and administration of community questionnaires in each EA. A team was mandated to cover twenty (20) EAs, with the total number of days allotted for fieldwork at fifty (50) days.

ORGANIZATION OF FIELD WORK

On arrival at the EA, the enumerators visited the community head(s) to explain their mission to the community and made arrangement on how to go about the administration of the questionnaires. The two enumerators first did the numbering of all relevant structures within the EA, and thereafter, carried out the listing exercise accordingly. One enumerator listed the structures with odd numbers while the second enumerator listed all the structures with even numbers.