Africa-Press – Angola. The cartographic update process, which is practically completed in Luanda, will cover six more provinces, which will also host the “Pilot Census” scheduled for July 19, 2023, along with the country’s capital.
According to the spokesperson for the Multisectoral Commission for the Support of the 2024 Census, Hernany Pena Luís, in the coming days, the cartographic update will cover, specifically, the provinces of Cunene, Bié, Uíge, Bengo, Cuando Cubango and Lunda- North.
Speaking to the press, at the end of the fourth meeting of the respective Commission, held this Thursday, in Luanda, the official assured that the technical and human conditions are being taken care of, with a view to carrying out the Pilot Census in the seven selected provinces, in expected date.
In order to review the delimited grid, before the implementation of the last census, the cartographic update process will also cover the remaining provinces, which will also be targets of the General Census of Population and Housing in 2024.
According to the source, this endeavor is expected to involve more than 500 cartographers nationwide, in addition to digitizers, drivers, among other technicians.
According to the spokesperson, the 2024 Census will be essentially technological, through the use of tablets, and supported by the infrastructures of the Public Service Desks (BUAP), which will be used to collect data throughout the territory. national.
According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), it is estimated that the 2024 Census will register more than 34 million people across the country, against the 25 million 789 thousand and 24 inhabitants registered in the 2014 Census.
As for the fourth meeting of the Multisectoral Commission for Supporting the 2024 Census, Hernany Pena Luís underlined that the meeting served to assess the technical, technological and mobility conditions of the seven provinces (14 municipalities) that will host the Pilot Census, scheduled for July 19, 2023.
In addition, he said, the meeting also reviewed the degree of execution of the tasks entrusted to the technical group, in the last meetings, with the engagement of the professionals involved being satisfactory, with an utilization rate of around 98 percent.
Coordinated by the Minister of State and Head of the Military House of the President of the Republic, Francisco Furtado, the Commission is composed of the Ministers of Economy and Planning, Defence, Former Combatants and Veterans of the Homeland, Interior, Finance, Justice and Human Rights , Territory Administration, Education, Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, Transport, and Public Works, Urbanism and Housing.
The 2024 Census will be the third in the country’s history, the first taking place in 1970, five years before Angola’s independence.
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