Design and Implementation of a Secured Census Information Management System

Census has been a reliable exercise from time, from where government rely for decision-making, and aids for administration and planning. According to Robert M. Groves, (2010)Director of the United States Census Bureau; "Just like we cannot survive without roads and bridges, the country does not function well without an updated census to distribute funds to areas that most need them and to support community decisions and their own future. I used Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM) in the work. Also, logical data modeling, data flow modeling and entity modeling were used in this work. I make use of high level model of the proposed system which I also designed and displayed in a format easily understandable to the user. The high level model of the proposed system was designed architecturally and detailed designed through its separate components. There were four modules in all, each taking care of specific function like: the staff management module that maintains records about the staff, the department management module manages information about departments in the commission; the register person, the register states, and the register LGA modules that do the actual registration of individuals. The parallel change over methodology was adopted to enable the commission compare the results of the two systems (old and new) before implementation. The result of this research work show that Computer Based Census Management System is far better than the Manual method in the sense that it reduces stress, save time, and retrieve of data can be easily done.