ABSTRACT:
The process of official and systematic numbering or counting people is taking a census. This has led to the proposal of various census models for implementation. Some of these census models have been marred by controversies like inaccuracies, data manipulation and inflation of results. As sophisticated technology continues to impact on organizations and countries, a growing need for efficient, flexible and cost effective census system becomes paramount. The solution thus lies in employing the services of a computerized census system (e-census). This work looks at a framework for computerized census system that will enable government have first-hand information on the population of the country and tends to arrest the manual form of census taking by generating computerized database which can be updated. E-census is conceptually proposed in this work to emanate from the identification, registration and recording of all birth and death in the society. The registration of voters in electioneering processes is a major activity that can be linked with the taking of accurate census. The electorate to a larger extent has to do with a subset of the population exercising their political right within the agreed electoral framework. The identification of the qualified subset of the population to take part in the electoral process has been conceptually reduced in this work to the generation of database queries based on the selection criteria of the required population subset. The proposed framework has shown that the registration and certification of birth and death can be streamlined to improve quality of service delivery to the citizens in generating valid and reliable quantitative data on general population and voters’ population. The work highlighted the needed facilities for easy registration of population for census and generation of voters’ list and provision of efficient compilation of voters’ register for elections.
Keywords:
census, election, population, registration, voters
