Africa-Press – Angola. The coordinator of the Census Technical Group in Cunene province, Índio Neto, asked this Friday, civil society to collaborate with enumerators within the scope of the General Population and Housing Census (RGPH) process that begins in July 2024.
The person in charge was speaking during the RGPH-2024 awareness seminar, addressed to the administrative authorities of the municipality of Namacunde, students, traditional and religious authorities, community leaders and the population.
He said that the one-day training aimed to mobilize and encourage the population to collaborate with the census agents who will be in the field.
“Support to inquirers and cartographers when they knock on the door to request the name of the head of the family and their household is necessary, because without the information it is not possible to have official statistics with the required quality”, he said.
He clarified that the information that will be collected will allow the government to know “how many there are, where we live and how we live”, to allow the government to outline policies for the benefit of the population.
He recalled that the data collection process follows a period of 30 days, which will allow the characterization of the resident population to be counted and the housing stock to be surveyed and typification of habitability conditions.
He informed that cartographic authorization is currently underway throughout the province’s census network, to form census sections that have an average of 90 homes in rural and urban areas.
He made it known that the objective is to guarantee the existence throughout the national territory of sections of uniform size to allow planning, organizing and properly implementing the key tasks of the census process such as estimating quality and materials for the census.
Índio Neto said that 55 technicians, distributed in 10 teams, including cartographic agents and drivers, are currently carrying out field work in the municipalities of Namacunde, Ombadja and Cahama, with the support of 10 vehicles and 10 motorbikes.
In turn, the deputy municipal administrator for the Technical Area, Infrastructure and Community Services of Namacunde, Gilberto Tuleingepo, highlighted the importance of the seminar as preparation for the general population and housing census is underway.
He recalled that it is a process with the purpose of obtaining essential indicators for counting and characterizing the population and surveying the housing stock and typifying the habitability conditions of the municipality.
Gilberto Tuleingepo said that they will work on mobilizing and publicizing the advantages of this process in the villages of the municipality, so that when the census takes place, they can receive census takers without suspicion for the success of the activity.
The second General Population and Housing Census in Angola will allow us to know precisely the number of inhabitants in the country, how many men, women, children and elderly people, where they live and how they live.
With this information, the country will be able to better plan the distribution of essential services to all Angolans.
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