Africa-Press – Angola. The director general of the National Statistics Institute (INE), José Calenji, this Thursday urged citizens of the municipalities of Cuito Cuanavale and Cuangar, in Cuando Cubango, to cooperate with census agents in sharing information, to the success of the Pilot Census.
The general coordinator of the technical group of the Multisectoral Commission for the Pilot Census reiterated that the success of the process will largely depend on the collaboration of the population covered in the municipalities selected in this first phase.
“We hope that the population will 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 implementation, logistics, technical-functional and organizational, for the success of the general population census to take place in 2024”, he stressed.
The governor of the province of Cuando Cubango, José Martins, assured that, on the part of the local government, the technical and human conditions have been created for the pilot census process.
“The teams are engaged in the phase of identifying special cases in 36 census areas in the two municipalities”, he said.
The municipality of Cuito Cuanavale, which is about 189 kilometers from the city of Menongue, capital of Cuando Cubango, has 19 census zones, one urban and 18 rural. It will count on the intervention of 21 field agents, three local technical assistants and two informatics assistants, one municipal assistant and an equal number of communal assistants.
Cuangar, which is 450 kilometers from the capital city of Cuando Cubango, has 17 census zones, 13 of which are rural and four urban, with 19 agents, three local technical assistants and two computer science assistants, one municipal assistant and an equal number of communal assistants. .
The province of Cuando Cubango, the second largest in the country, with more than 199 thousand square kilometers, has close to 535 thousand and 838 inhabitants, according to the 2014 census, with a projection, for 2023, of 697 thousand and 397 inhabitants.
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