The planning unit is the coordinating center for district planning, budgeting and other related function. It is also the centre for data collection, categorization and analysis of relevant information for planning, decision making and other policy formulation. It consists of Planning, statistic, population, development planning, MIS, M&E and operational planning. The population sector focuses on the population and social economic characteristics of the district.
To formulate present and future development programmes, the district needs to know the size, quality distributed and growth of its population, population censuses are the main sources of demographic in general and information on population size, distribution and growth rate in particular. Other sources may surveys, birth and death registration.