Government confirms that the Population Census will be held on November 16 with the deployment of 305,000 census takers.

 The National Government confirmed this Tuesday that the Population and Housing Census will be carried out on November 16, with the deployment of 305,000 surveyors. The previous stage will begin next week, with the cartographic update.

Humberto Arandia, executive director of the National Statistics Institute (INE), informed that the census form has already been finalized, which was reviewed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and details concerning the budget required for the mobilization are still being fine-tuned.

He also explained that 10,000 people will be hired to carry out the cartographic data collection, a task that will be completed in July, when the pre-census is expected to be carried out, as long as the established parameters are met.

"The Census is a national priority because any bibliographic text points out that the census activity is the most complex and titanic task that a country can face, because it involves the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of people, approximately 305,000 surveyors should be mobilized, we should hire about 10,000 people in the pre-census stage to perform the cartographic update," said the authority.

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He remarked that Supreme Decree 4546, approved in July 2021, establishes that the information survey will be carried out on November 16, and will last one day in the case of urban areas and three days in dispersed areas.

He emphasized that 93 and 97 percent less time is spent, compared to 2012 and 2022, and in the preparation of all the activities, using 861 days for the entire operation until the delivery of the results, which would take place at the end of 2023, approximately.

"The most important products that have already been concluded are the training for the statistical cartographic update, the methodological documents and manuals are ready, and in the next few days a group of people will start to travel around the country to georeference the houses; we have computer applications made exclusively for the field operation, one hundred percent free of vulnerabilities; coordination with municipalities was carried out to obtain information from urban and dispersed areas", he remarked.

In addition, INE developed applications to facilitate the work of cartographic updating and the deployment of pollsters, which were reviewed and considered secure. They will also enable a web portal in order to make transparent all actions related to the collection of information.