Africa-Press – Angola. One hundred and seventy-four field agents began Monday, collecting data in 115 urban census sections and 57 rural ones, 25 in the commune of Canzar (Cambulo municipality) and 90 in Luachimo (Chitato), in the province of Lunda Norte, within the framework of the Pilot Census, opened on the 19th of July this year.
The Pilot Census will take place between the 19th of July and the 19th of August in the provinces of Bengo, Bié, Cuando Cubango, Cunene, Luanda, Lunda Norte and Uíge, with the aim of testing the level of readiness for the intervention of all associated procedures operational, logistical, technical-functional and organizational implementation, for the success of the general population census to take place in 2024.
According to the head of provincial services at the National Statistics Institute (INE) in Lunda Norte, Leão Mucazo Cazade, in addition to field agents, the operation has 23 provincial, municipal and communal technical assistants.
Of the 174 census agents and supervisors, 148 are working in the municipality of Chitato and 25 in Cambulo.
Angola has already carried out two general population and housing censuses, namely in 1970, during the colonial period, and in 2014, after national independence, with the 2024 statistical registration being the third census operation that the country will carry out.
The 2014 statistical record, the second census carried out by the country, indicated that the province of Lunda Norte had, at the time, 862,566 inhabitants.
The projections of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) indicate that in 2024, the population of the province of Lunda Norte could reach one million and 150 thousand.
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