Planning: Census operations will continue for two weeks starting from November 20, 25 oct

  Planning: Census operations will continue for two weeks starting from November 20

10/25/2024

The Ministry of Planning confirmed today, Friday, that the date for conducting the census on November 20 is fixed and unchanged, while it indicated that its operations will continue for two weeks until December 3, 2024.

 The ministry's spokesman, Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, said in a press statement, "The ministry has completed the requirements for conducting the population census," stressing that "the percentage of completion of the requirements for enumeration and numbering reached 96% in all governorates, except for the governorates of the Kurdistan Region, which reached 65%."

Al-Hindawi added, "The Ministry of Planning is anticipating the census as an event that has been absent from Iraq for 27 years, and has worked to provide all requirements for conducting the population census on 11/20-21/2024."

He added, "The population census project is huge and large and includes an inventory of everything above ground, including buildings, homes, and residential facilities," stressing, "the development of a comprehensive plan by the Ministry of Planning."

He explained that "the inventory and numbering process was preceded by aerial photo census operations for all buildings throughout Iraq," stressing that "the inventory and numbering operations witnessed the addition of 10% of buildings through aerial photos, which records the expansion of the construction and building movement in Iraq."

Al-Hindawi said, "The ministry has prepared 40,000 well-trained researchers to record population census data," stressing, "The process of training 80,000 enumerators has begun, so that the total number of researchers will be 120,000."

He stressed that "the census staff is capable of completing its tasks in the required manner," while he explained that "the census process is distributed to every 100 families by a researcher to record their basic data (number of individuals, gender, age)," stressing that "the announcement of the initial results includes the general census (number of females + number of males) and the population of each governorate."

He added, "The census process will continue until December 3, 2024. The counted family will be referred to record data (housing, health and education), and its results will be the end of the census."  LINK