Bureau of Statistics to begin Economic census in October

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Yemi Kale (Statistician-General, National Bureau of Statistics)

The National Bureau of Statistics will begin a national economic census across the country from October 12.

Statistician-General, NBS, Yemi Kale, who announced this at the Training of Trainers for the National Business Sample Census in Abuja said the census would last for two months.

He explained that the business census, also known as an economic census, was a statistical exercise that involved the enumeration of formal and informal business establishments across the country.

kale stated that it had been more than 20 years that the exercise was conducted in Nigeria.