Pakistan’s first ever digital population and housing census kicks off across the country on Wednesday.
As many as 121,000 field enumerators will carry out the field operation of survey. The process will be completed by 1st of next month.
The data collected will be released by 30th of next month which will then be approved by the Council of Common Interests.The evidence-based authentic data as per international standards will be used for delimitation of constituencies in the next general elections as well as for public policy planning.
The census teams will be monitored by geo mapping and geo tagging data of SUPARCO and administration officials of respective province, division, district and tehsil.
Briefing newsmen about the census in Islamabad, spokesperson Pakistan Bureau Of Statistics said a portal has already been launched by the bureau so that people can submit their data themselves and don’t need to face the botheration of giving data to census teams visiting door-to-door.
He said more than 4 million people have already been registered at the portal and a UTN number will be issued to them after their data is saved and they can give that number to the census team which will save their own time and also of the census team.
Pakistan’s first ever digital population, housing census begins
