Africa-Press – Angola. The National Institute of Statistics (INE) carries out a coverage survey in the province of Lunda Norte, to validate the data obtained during the Pilot Census, which took place from August 7th to September 6th of this year.
The information was provided Monday, by the director of INE’s provincial services in Lunda Norte, Leão Cazade, highlighting that the survey started last Friday and is being carried out by 40 enumerators.
He said that 60 census tracts were selected in the municipalities of Cambulo and Chitato, out of the 174 registered during the Pilot Census.
He explained that the process aims to confirm data on the number of people per household, socioeconomic condition of each family, access to basic social services, among other information.
He made it known that after this process, the definitive report on the real number of families and dwellings registered will be released, adding that the survey will last 30 days.
The Pilot Census took place 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 procedures associated with the operational, logistical, technical-functional implementation and organizational, for the success of the general population census to take place in 2024.
In Lunda Norte, the process was carried out by 176 census takers, 23 technical assistants, ten cartographers, four IT specialists, among others.
Angola has already carried out two General Population and Housing Censuses, namely in 1970, during colonial times, and in 2014, after national independence, with the 2024 statistical record being the third census operation that the country will carry out.
The 2014 statistical record, the second census operation that the country carried out, indicated that the province of Lunda Norte had, at the time, 862 thousand and 566 inhabitants.
Projections by 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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