CERTIFICATION PAGE

This is to certify that Ugwu Valentine .C. carried out this project. The research work has not been submitted elsewhere for the award of a degree.

Ugwu Valentine .C.                                                                           Date

Cst/t/2010/444

DEDICATION

This project is dedicated to Mother Mary, the very mother of Jesus Christ who is God the son, to God Almighty who made every provision possible for us to attain this academic level.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We wish to thank God Almighty for His mercy and protection on us from the time of birth through this academic journey.
We are most grateful to my father PROF .S, O.UGWU and Brothers who through their efforts we have finally graduated from this University.
Our profound gratitude goes to our supervisor Mr. Toby umesiegbu for the fatherly role and love she played throughout this project task, which helped to make the project a reality.
We will never forget our able head of department, Dr. Arinze Nwaeze, who would always give students the conducive environment to carry out their projects and academic activities successfully. May God reword u?
Our immense gratitude goes to our lecturer Mr. Ejike ugwu who has been our academic adviser from time and helped us a lot even in the project.
Finally, we will not forget to show our sincere appreciation to our colleagues and friends who in one way or the other contributed to our academic pursuit and also for their immense support and contribution to the completion of this project.

ABSTRACT

The researcher chose to research on this topic “Computer Based Census Management System” because of its relevance to the society. Meanwhile, the manual method so far has its attendant problem of being tedious. The researcher, in order to solve this time consuming, monotonous, and repetitive manual census activities went into a thorough study of the existing system. In the report proper, the Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM) was adopted and explained. The high level model of the proposed system was also designed and displayed in a format easily understandable to the user. The high level model of the proposed system was designed architecturally and detailed designed through its separate components. There were four modules in all, each taking care of specific function like: the staff management module that maintains records about the staff; the department management module manages information about departments in the commission; the register person, the register states, and the register LGA modules that do the actual registration of individuals. Finally, the parallel change over methodology was adopted to enable the commission compare the results of the two systems (old and new) before implementation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

Approval Page                                                                                    I

Certification Page                                                                               II
Dedication                                                                                          III
Acknowledgement                                                                             IV
Abstract                                                                                              V
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION

• Background of Study                                                                   1
• Statement of Problem                                                                   2
• Objective of Study                                                                       3
• Significant of Study                                                                     4
• Scope of Study                                                                             5
• Limitation of Study                                                                      6
• Definition of Terms                                                                      7

CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE INTRODUCTION

• History of Census in Nigeria                                                        8
• process Involve in Census Operation                                            9
• Census Population Information                                                    10
• Population                                                                                     11
• Population Growth and Decline                                                   12
• Population Density                                                                       13
• Human Population Growth and Limitation                                  14
• Population and Peoples Culture                                                    15
• Database Management System                                                     16
• Importance of Census                                                                   17
• Benefit of Computer Based Management System                       18

CHAPTER THREE INTRODUCTION

• Feasibility Study                                                                           19
• Research Methodology Adopted                                                 20
• Organization (NPC) and Environment                                         21

3.3.2 Functions of NPC                                                                      22
3.8 Analysis of New System                                                              23
CHAPTER FOUR INTRODUCTION

• Objectives of the New System                                                     25
• Main Menu                                                                                    26

4.5 Database Specifications                                                                27

• Program Data Dictionary                                                              28
• System implementation                                                                 29

CHAPTER FIVE

• Summary                                                                                       30
• Conclusion                                                                                    31
• Recommendation                                                                          32

References                                                                                      33

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION

Census has been a reliable exercise from time, from where government rely for decision-making, and aids for administration and planning. According to Robert M. Groves, (2010) Director of the United States Census Bureau;
“Just like we cannot survive without roads and bridges, the country does not function well without an updated census to distribute funds to areas that most need them and to support community decisions and their own future.”
The increasing complexity of modern life means a greater need to plan housing, schools, roads, transportation, and a vast range of social and economic requirement for nation. This cannot be done without a detailed count of the population. Census is being officially managed by some organizations or government, for example the National Population Commission (NPC).
The installation of computer in these organizations or bodies that manages census information will assist not only in fast-recording information but also in solving certain problems, which cannot be easily resolved manually. The human resource of any enterprises are considered to be their most valuable assets, if they are properly harnessed and are well motivated to perform their assigned tasks in such a manner as to enhance the enterprises goals and objectives.

Therefore, adequate population records will provide all the necessary information that is associated with people, which include the size of the population, age structure, educational attainment, labour force and socio-economic characteristics, unlike in the manual method which makes access to data and information very tedious. The integration of different databases so that these databases can be merged and processed together and mainly other reasons, prompted the researcher to develop software for this organization, National Population Commission (NPC).

Background of the study

Census taking in Nigeria can be traced to have started from as far back as 1966 after the colonization of Lagos by our colonial masters. Since then, there have been several attempts to count Nigeria population. However, these censuses are characterized by some difficulties and deliberate and ill-minded attempts to inflate population figures; just in favour of one geopolitical zone or the other. This does not and cannot represent the nation‟s image as regards to human population. As a result of this, the National Population Commission (NPC) was established using the Decree No. 23 of 1989. The brain behind this was to have successful censuses each time and as well accurate demographic data. It is no doubt that this Commission (NPC) was vested with a lot of powers and functions some of which are;
   To undertake the periodic enumeration of the nation‟s population through census, sample surveys, etc.
   To establish and maintain the machinery for continuous and universal registration of births and deaths
   To collect, collate and publish data on migration statistics
   To reach and monitor national population polity and set up national population information data bank.

Unfortunately, Nigeria still relies on foreign statistics population information data bank for most of their population estimation.

Statement of the problem

There are many problems affecting the National Population Commission from maintaining a steady reliable figures and estimates. These are the more reasons, why the researcher embarked on this research;

• inadequate manpower

• lack of equipments
• poor organisation
• unstable polity
• manual bulk carrying of data

Objectives of the Study

The objectives of this study are summarized as follows:

• To develop computerized software that automatically stores and retrieves all information on human population.
• To develop a reliable system that could be used in collecting data/information on human population.
• To develop a system that will support direct access to the specific and required information

Significant of the Project

• The system will solve problem associated with the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of information on human population with ease.
• A timely retrieval of information is anticipated with efficiency and reliability.
• It will provide security to data that are unauthorized, users will not gain access to those files and fraud will be minimized in the society which will lead to improvement in administration processes.

Scope of the Project

The major aim of the project is to design a system that will have all information about human population and retrieving of data when ever needed in the society. It focuses on the registration, retrieval and management of information about individuals in the society.

Limitation of Study

During the course of this study, many things militated against its completion, some of which are;

• Lack of finance