YANGON, March 30 -- Myanmar's national census, the first in three decades,
started Sunday to collect data on current population, economic and social facts
and figures, which was aimed at working out a national development plan.
The 12-day National Population and Housing Census, which involves a staff of
120,000, is conducted in accordance with international standard and with
international technical assistance especially from the UN Population Fund
(UNFPA).
Some dozens of household-related questions were raised to citizens through
house-to-house interview.
The census is based on 60-million population with 11 million households in 14
regions or states covering 70 districts, 330 townships, 3,051 wards, 64,346
villages and 13,620 village-tracts inhabited by 135 nationalities with five
major religious faiths.
Of the expected cost of 58.5 million U.S. dollars for the census taking
process, Myanmar government committed 15 million dollars, while the United
Nations pledged 5 million dollars for materials and courses, according to
earlier reports.
Experts from 13 countries and UN statistics division, UNFPA, ESCAP and the
World Bank are also helping Myanmar in the process.
The rough report on results of the national census is to be released in early
2015.
Myanmar used to take census once a decade after it regained independence in
1948. The last two census were in 1973 and 1983 which registered Myanmar's
population as 28.92 million and over 35 million.
After 1983, the once-a-decade nationwide census could not be taken for
various reasons including conflicts in some areas as well as some inaccessible
areas.
Myanmar's announced a population of 60.98 million in October 2012.
Meanwhile, thousands of Rakhine ethnic residents have been protesting against
listing Rohingya as ethnic people in the nationwide census.
http://www.information.myanmaronlinecentre.com/myanmar-national-census-2014-starts-eastday/
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