Stats Bureau to start roll out of final census data at month-end

THE Bureau of Statistics will be rolling out the final aspects of the National Population and Housing Census at the end of this month.This announcement was made by Chief Statistician Lennox Benjamin, on Monday during a press conference hosted by Finance Minister Winston Jordan.

According to Benjamin, at the end of May, the first roll-out of compendiums will be done, after which national, economic, educational, housing and foreign-born components (profiles) will be rolled out in June.

‘GROSSLY UNDER-UTILISED’
The preliminary report of the National Population and Housing Census was released in 2014, and Benjamin believes the information therein is “grossly underutilized”. He told reporters on Monday that “A population census is a very serious matter…we have put a preliminary report in the public domain since June 2014”, but unfortunately, persons have little or no faith in that information provided almost two years ago.

The Bureau, he said, has been congratulated recently by a “major regional body” for the work done on the preliminary report, but on all accounts, even policy makers are finding it difficult to utilise the document.

That preliminary report included a number of areas, including, but not limited to, preliminary population count, the number of households, and the average household size by region; the regional population growth, regional population density, gender distribution and the population distribution by coastland and hinterland regions.

Field exercises for the country’s last census were completed in December 2012, while the final verification and editing were finished in June 2013. The preliminary report was released one year after the final verification process, he said.

Census 2012 was part of the United Nations 2010 round of global population and housing censuses.

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