Residents urged to participate in Census 2022
“The census offers the country an opportunity to collect, compile and publish updated demographic, economic and social data for all persons in the country."
Tshwane residents were urged to take part in the 2022 census at its launch at the Statistics SA head office on Tuesday.
“This census will offer South Africa an opportunity to collect, compile and publish updated demographic, economic and social data for all persons in the country,” said deputy minister in the presidency Thembi Siweya.
The census was set to start next Thursday, February 3, and will run to February 28.
South Africa’s last census was held in 2011.
“I am pleased that we can have fresh data to help us with policy formulation and evidence-based decision making,” she said.
“Conducting a census is key as it is the only source of small area data.”
While speaking at the media launch, Siweya called on all social partners to get behind the latest census.
Siweya said she was pleased with Stats SA’s state of readiness during her visit to the head office.
Stats SA was currently finalising the training of field staff. It had also set up a call centre to assist everyone to be counted.
“We recruited our field workers via online methods only. We will use only digital devices to collect data for Census 2022. Remote data collection is available. This should help those who want to do self-enumeration to participate from anywhere at their own convenience,” statistician general Risenga Maluleke said.
Project director Calvin Molongoana said his team was ready to oversee the implementation of all processes to ensure the population and housing count was successful.
“We want to ensure that each individual and each living quarter are enumerated. This is the stock-taking of a country’s people, where and how people live,” he said.
The census was originally planned for October 2021, but was delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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