Santo Domingo.- The Tenth National Population and Housing Census began today with the same difficulties as those held in 2002 and 1998, such as problems with the enumerators to locate the assigned areas, problems with the census maps and difficulties with the deliveries of the work teams.
Work began this morning under the coordination of the authorities of the Tenth National Population and Housing Census and the National Statistics Office (ONE), but there were dozens of enumerators waiting for the material to be delivered, including maps and tables, according to it was verified in the Club Mauricio Báez, of Villa Juana.
This time it was reported that 35,000 enumerators will be traveling throughout the national territory, registering the population from today, November 10, to November 23.
For example, in 2012, the Census was scheduled to be held from November 24 to 30, but due to problems related to logistics such as the distribution of expendable material, the authorities were forced to postpone it until the first week of December. and at the end of the scheduled date, the enumerators only managed to take a census of 90%, as confirmed by the director of the National Statistics Office, Pablo Tactuk.
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The official decided to extend the program during Saturday and Sunday in order to census the remaining 10% of the population and the enumerators were unable to enumerate a large part of the population residing in the Capotillo, Simón Bolívar, Las Cañitas, Gualey neighborhoods, April 24 , February 27 among others according to and reported.
However, during the 8th National Population and Housing Census held on October 18, 19 and 20, 2002, it was not possible to specify what proportion of the population remained uncensused, since the National District 15% of the enumerators abandoned their work due to lack of payment and because they had the perception that they were going to earn more money, according to José Tineo
In Santo Domingo Puerto Plata and San Pedro de Macorís multiple difficulties were reported to carry out the work due to contradictions in the census maps, except in San Juan de la Maguana where work was carried out in an organized manner according to press reports.
The tenth National Population and Housing Census began today with the same difficulties as those held in 2002 and 1998, such as problems with the enumerators to locate the assigned areas, problems with the census maps and difficulties with the delivery of work teams.
Work began this morning under the coordination of the authorities of the Tenth National Population and Housing Census and the National Statistics Office (ONE), but there were dozens of enumerators waiting for the material to be delivered, including maps and tables, according to it was verified in the Club Mauricio Báez, of Villa Juana.
This time it was reported that 35,000 enumerators will be traveling throughout the national territory, registering the population from today, November 10, to November 23.
For example, in 2012 the Census was scheduled to be held from November 24 to 30, but due to problems related to logistics such as the distribution of expendable material, the authorities were forced to postpone it until the first week of December and at the end of On the scheduled date, the enumerators only managed to take a census of 90%, as confirmed by the director of the National Statistics Office, Pablo Tactuk.
The official decided to extend the program during Saturday and Sunday in order to census the remaining 10% of the population and the enumerators were unable to enumerate a large part of the population residing in the Capotillo, Simón Bolívar, Las Cañitas, Gualey neighborhoods, April 24 , February 27 among others according to and reported.
However, during the 8th National Population and Housing Center held on October 18, 19 and 20, 2002, it was not possible to specify what proportion of the population remained unregistered, since the National District 15% of the enumerators abandoned their work due to lack of payment and because they had the perception that they were going to earn more money, according to José Tineo
In Santo Domingo Puerto Plata and San Pedro de Macorís multiple difficulties were reported to carry out the work due to contradictions in the census maps, except in San Juan de la Maguana where work was carried out in an organized manner according to press reports.
