NBS solely Company Authorised to Challenge Unemployment Figures in Nigeria, Says Satistician-Common

The Statistician-Common of the Federation, Prince Semiu Adeyemi Adeniran, has cautioned Nigerians and urged them to discard and disrespect any unemployment figures or knowledge coming from every other physique or organisation apart the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Prince Adeniran who spoke to senior journalists and publishers in an interactive session on Friday evening stated the NBS is the one company with the mandate to check, collect knowledge and situation such figures for the aim of aiding authorities planning.

Reacting to a latest report credited to KPMG which put Nigeria’s unemployment charge at over 40 p.c, Prince Adeniran who doubles because the Director-Common of the NBS stated apart his workplace having the only real authority to situation statistical knowledge on the efficiency of every sector of the economic system, they don’t merely forecast or situation projected knowledge.

“We don’t forecast or mission primarily based on what others have finished and attempt to mislead the Nigerian authorities into planning with what will not be dependable. We exit and get precise, uncooked knowledge,” he stated.

He accused the KPMG of utilizing NBS knowledge to mission and forecast earlier than arriving on the over 40 p.c unemployment charge which he stated will not be lifelike.

He argued that the 40 p.c unemployment charge issued by the KPMG will not be dependable as it’s primarily based on an previous methodology that has been discarded in keeping with world greatest practices.

The NBS boss stated the company has adopted a brand new methodology in keeping with world requirements and can in a matter of weeks give you a extra sturdy, complete, dependable and usable Official Labour Drive Survey which is able to seize the employment and unemployment charge within the nation.

“33 p.c or 40 p.c unemployment charge is now not tenable. The methodology has to alter in keeping with world greatest practices. No nation has 40 p.c unemployment charge as some individuals quote in Nigeria,” he argued.

He said additional that the Official Labour Drive Survey is commonly generated from Nationwide Family Surveys by any nation’s Nationwide Statistical Workplace (NSO) “and this isn’t finished on the desk. It’s finished on the sector because the households need to be visited.”