Africa-Press – Angola. About six months after the start of work aimed at organizing the 2024 General Census, the Multisectoral Commission carried out this Thursday (29), in the country’s capital, a balance of the actions carried out so far. emphasizing its good progress.
Speaking to the press at the end of the meeting of the Multisectoral Commission, coordinated by the Minister of State and Head of the Military House of the President of the Republic, Francisco Pereira Furtado, its spokesman, Hernani Luís, referred that it served to analyze the degree of execution, as well as the tasks that must be optimised.
This evaluation, stressed the deputy director of the National Statistics Institute (INE), “takes place when we are just a few days away from carrying out the Pilot Census, scheduled for July 19 in 7 provinces (Bié, Bengo, Cuando Cubango, Cunene, Luanda, Lunda-Norte and Uíge), in a total of 14 communes”.
He also said that the information that was taken to today’s meeting aimed to have a picture of the work in these communes that on the 19th of July will be the stage of the Pilot Census.
The Pilot Census precedes and aims to prepare for the General Census, which will take place in 2024.
This time, he stressed that the technical conditions have been created, depending on the tasks carried out by the different ministerial departments that have missions and obligations in these various matters, exemplifying the case of the Ministry of National Defense, which has at its disposal air and land means that will be able to facilitate mobility in those more challenging areas.
Hernani Luís also highlighted that the Pilot Census will already be able to count on the collaboration of 570 cartographers and 114 drivers, recently recruited, according to the public tender promoted.
As for the staff for the large operation, next year (July 19), “we are going to need a significant number of census takers”, adding that only the Pilot Census will dictate the necessary number of technicians for the General Census from 2024.
He argued that as soon as the Pilot Census takes place, the authorities will be able to assess the logistical and technical structure to carry out the great general operation next year.
The 2024 General Census intends to collect information of a social and demographic nature, economic, health, housing survey, “among other variables that only a Census can collect and a specific survey cannot, so we will have robust information to enrich our statistical collection”, he argued.
The first meeting of the Multisectoral Commission for the 2024 Census took place on January 16 of this year and, since then, six ordinary meetings have taken place.
In 1983, there was an attempt to carry out the first Population Census of Independent Angola, but this failed due to the political context at the time. 21 years later, in 2014, it was possible to know the total population, which was 24 million inhabitants, according to data provided by INE.
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