Africa-Press – Angola. The spokesman for the Multisectoral Commission to support the 2024 Census, Hernani Luís, Tuesday appealed to the population of the municipalities of Chitato and Cambulo, Lunda Norte, to collaborate with census agents in sharing information.
The official, who coordinates the visit of the Multisectoral Commission for the Pilot Census in Lunda Norte province, reiterated that the success of the process will largely depend on the collaboration of the population covered in this phase.
“We would like the population to receive our agents well from the 7th of this month, giving the real information, because it is a process that will test the level of readiness for the intervention of all the procedures associated with the operational, logistical, technical implementation -functional and organizational, for the success of the general population census to take place in 2024”, he stressed.
He asked for unconditional support from the provincial government and the municipal administrations of Chitato and Cambulo for the work teams.
The official was speaking during a hearing that the local deputy governor for Technical Services and Infrastructures, Domingos Dala, granted to the Commission, within the framework of a supervision agenda in six of the seven provinces selected for the Pilot Census, said that the logistical and institutional support from these bodies will be essential.
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.
To this end, 189 field agents are being trained to ensure the process in 115 urban and 57 rural census sections, 25 in the municipality of Canzar (municipality Cambulo) and 90 in Luachimo (Chitato).
In addition to the field agents, the operation will have 23 provincial, municipal and communal technical assistants who will be responsible for training the field agents who will collect data from the 7th of August.
Of the 189 field agents undergoing training as of today, only 172 will be selected to work as census takers and supervisors, 146 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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