Vital Civic Registration System as a Tool for Development Planning in Nigeria: An Examination of the Major Challenges

Abstract

This study examines the processes and procedures of Vital Civic Registration System in Nigeria. The essence is to highlight those factor militating against effective and efficient Vital Civic Registration System as a veritable means of obtaining current data you update census data; which are required for planning on the one hand, and on the other hand, attempting to proffer possible measures to improve on Vital Civic Registration System in Nigeria. The data for this study were mainly generated from secondary sources. The content analysis method was used. Relying on theory to explain how the general demographic system works, effort are however made to link the secondary data with personal experiences with the stakeholder in the vital registration centres and locales. The paper reveals that the Vital Civic Registration System is hindered by such factors as low level of literacy, inaccessibility centres influence of strong cultural belief, poor appreciation of the need for these data; and type of model adopted in Nigeria. Among other thing, the paper recommends that with urgency a continuous intensive and extensive public enlightenment campaign throughout the country on the issue of vital civic registration

Keywords: Civic registration, System, Development, Planning Enlightenment Campaign, literacy