Enumeration for health and government census data: Consensus or controversy?

摘要

Background: Enumeration of catchment area communities is essential for planning and disease surveillance. Non-availability of?such framework often results in over-reliance on national population census which uses a ‘de-facto’ method as opposed to the appropriate ‘de-jure’ method. We describe a process of carrying out a de-jure census as a prelude to a community-based surveillance of childhood infections in Ibarapa Central Local Government Area in southwest Nigeria.