Dr Mguni said district officials should understand the conduct of the
census in order to ensure that the 2021
census would be held without many problems, noting that the
census was a massive exercise requiring the participation of all stakeholders.
Let
census officials start counting people as early as 5pm.
This
census aims to use electricity bills as base of information and as proof of residency and address.
The minister said through this
census, data will be collected on not only rice and jute rather on duck, chicken, cattle, goat son on and so forth.
And as if to prove his point, the prime minister also gave an interview to a
census team led by Minister of Planning Chhay Than on Sunday at his Takhmao city house in Kandal province.
The stages include preparations (development of relevant laws, regulations, pilot
census),
census (collection of
census data from the population by
census takers) and processing of the collected data and publishing of results.
EVERY effort can be made to build in-house capacity at the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, its counterparts in the provinces, and its sister organisations, to collect, archive, analyse, and disseminate
Census data.
A team of more than 200 enumerators, or
census workers, is set to hit the streets Feb.
While chairing a briefing session on the recently held Population and Housing
Census 2017, the minister said that the data would prove highly beneficial for better economic planning and development.
He said the
census was underway in the province peacefully with the help of the Pakistan Army.
During the past 15 years, a
census has been conducted in almost all UN member countries, however, only a handful among major countries have not done so.