Section 4, The Census Act, 2002

(1) For the purposes of any census under this Act, the Statistician - General appointed under the Statistics Act, 2002 shall be the Chief Census Officer. 28 No. 14 Census Act 2002 (2) The duties of the Chief Census Officer shall be– (a) the direction of the overall technical and administrative control of the taking of any census; (b) the demarcation of Sierra Leone into census district areas; (c) the designing, testing and finalization of census questionnaires; (d) the procurement of census materials, equipments and supplies and their distribution in the different census district areas; (e) the appointment of all temporary census personnel; (f) the training of all census technical staff, including cartographers, cartographic assistants, enumerating staff; (g) the processing, tabulation, analysis and publication of census data; (h) the conduct of the census post-enumeration survey and the analysis thereof; (i) the summoning of meetings of the Census Advisory Committee at such times as may be directed by the Chairman of the Committee and the keeping of records of all the proceedings of the meetings of the Committee; No. 14 Census Act 2002 29 (j) the provision of equipment for members of the Census Advisory Committee; and (k) such other functions as may be determined by the Statistics Sierra Leone Council. [Margin: Distric Census Officers.]