INE postpones definition of the census date until March 2024

The Government reported that the National Institute of Statistics (INE) will announce the specific date of the census between January and March 2024. However, in August it had been agreed to discuss the day of the survey, with all the sectorsonce the work of the technical tables in each department has been completed.

“The specific date will be established in the first quarter of 2024, that is, from January to March the specific day would have to be. The schedule is being worked on so that the census is carried out in the month of May and June of that year,” said the Deputy Minister of Autonomies, Álvaro Ruiz.

Supreme Decree 4760 not only indicates the postponement of the census process between May and June 2024, but also warns, in the Single Additional Provision, that the INE will announce in the first half of 2024to date for the execution of the data collection.

After the meeting of the Government with the institutional Santa Cruz, on August 15, Governor Luis Fernando Camacho reported that the date of the census was not closed and that the census proposals for 2023, presented by the Uagrm, were going to be taken into account.

Until then, La Paz had also submitted a tentative schedule.

However, yesterday the Minister of Planning, Sergio Cusicanqui, rejected both proposals because they would violate international standards.

“We have held 10 meetings, we are fulfilling the commitments, the schedule has been socialized, we have not had any serious proposal or that it meets international parameters,” said the authority at a press conference.

Cusicanqui was accompanied by the leaders of the Unity Pact, who supported the government’s census schedule and the work of depoliticization.

Meanwhile, Santa Cruz enlists a council on September 30 and makes departmental alliances to fight for the census in 2023.