Section 3, The Census Act, 2002

(1) Subject to this Act, Statistics Sierra Leone shall have the general supervision and management in the taking of any census in Sierra Leone. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), Statistics Sierra Leone shall have the responsibility– No. 14 Census Act 2002 27 (a) to mobilise resources for the implementation of census programmes; (b) to prepare, print, and issue for the use of the persons employed in the execution of this Act, such forms and instructions as it may deem necessary, and in particular, questionnaires to be filled up with such particulars as it may consider necessary in order to ensure as far as possible the completeness and accuracy of the census returns; (c) to make such arrangements as are necessary for the collection, revision and collation of the information required to be obtained for the purposes of the census; (d) appoint census officers, supervisors and enumerators required for the taking of the census; (e) to give such directions to any other person or body appointed pursuant to any law relating to census or statistics; (f) to publish the results of the census as soon as may be possible; (g) to create a public awareness of the purposes, benefits and the need for the census; (h) to do all such things as may be necessary or expedient for the exercise of the powers or the performance of its functions under subsection (1). [Margin: Chief Census Officer.]