PIP: This Decree establishes a Nigerian National Population Commission consisting of a Chairman, 7 members, and a Director General, to be appointed by the President. The Commission is to do the following: "(a) undertake the enumeration of the population of Nigeria periodically, through censuses, sample surveys or otherwise; (b) establish and maintain a machinery for continuous and universal registration of births and deaths throughout the Federation; (c) prepare and maintain a national framework for the delineation exercise for censuses and sample surveys; (d) collect, collate and publish data on migration statistics; (e) research and monitor the national population policy and set up a national population information data bank; (f) arrange for the appointment and training of enumerators and all other categories of staff of the Commission; (g) provide information and data on population for purposes of facilitating national planning and economic development; (h) advise the Federal Government on any population and population-related programmes and problems; (i) disseminate information and educate the general public about the functions of the Commission under this Decree; (j) do all such things as may be considered by the Commission to be necessary, desirable, expedient, supplementary or incidental, to the performance of the functions or the exercise of the powers conferred on the Commission under this Decree." Further provisions of the Decree deal with organization and staff, finances, reports, offenses, powers to enter premises, assets, and the census.