Africa-Press – Angola. The National Statistics Institute (INE) in the province of Zaire updated, from July 2023 to January this year, 872 census sections, out of the two thousand and 165 predicted for the 2024 General Census, which corresponds to 40.3 percent coverage.
Speaking this Thursday, the head of INE’s provincial department, Doura Vitorino Luzolo, explained that, in this first phase, 1,323 updates are planned in urban areas and 842 in rural areas
According to the person in charge, four work teams made up of 21 technicians have been mobilized, including 16 cartographic agents, four field supervisors and one provincial supervisor.
The coordinator of the census technical group in the region pointed out the constant rains that have fallen in the region in recent months as one of the factors that prevented the teams from reaching the target (50%) recommended in this first phase.
He added that this situation will be reversed in the coming days with the slowdown in rainfall, combined with the efforts of the teams involved in the process.
He reported that the cartographic data for the municipalities of Mbanza Kongo, Nzeto, Tomboco and Nóqui had already been updated, at a time when the census teams were deployed in the districts of Cuimba and Soyo.
It should be noted that the cartographic update consists of the political-administrative division for the delimitation of neighborhoods and inhabited perimeters of villages, creation of census grids and collection of reference points for the census process.
Data from the last Population and Housing Census, carried out in 2014, indicate that the province of Zaire has an estimated population of 594,428 inhabitants, spread across six municipalities, 25 communes and 711 villages.
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