Census: Deputy Minister Alexis Cruz says it will help identify poverty

After starting the X National Population and Housing Census in the midst of debates about whether the current situation is opportune for it to be concretized and the rejection of legislators and another part of civil society alleging high levels of crime, Alexis Cruz RodriguezDeputy Minister of Economic and Social Analysis of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Developmentsaid that the census will not only reveal the levels of monetary poverty, but also multidimensional poverty.

“You can have a house, a home that receives remittances and you calculate what your income levels are and you are probably above the monetary poverty line, but you have multidimensional poverty because there are dimensions in your living conditions that make you poor, such as deficiencies in education and health”, he explained when being interviewed in the program Contact 360.

In the space, hosted by Michelle Ortiz, Edward Hidalgo and Jenkin Orozco, he stressed that the census is the best tool a country has to carry out its development plans through its public policies and stated that the data collected through This process will allow you to get to the smallest detail.

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He also explained that with the 2010 census, the last one carried out in the country, the Vice Ministry of Economic and Social Analysis developed the poverty maps because through this process it was possible to identify poverty at the level of the municipality, places and commune.

“We went to the smallest detail and that allowed, at that time, to design social security plans that led to alleviate monetary poverty in some places,” he said.

He explained that being able to draw those maps again will give them access as a country to implement specific programs by regions that allow monetary and multidimensional poverty to be reduced to the highest possible level, while adding that Enrriquillo is one of the areas with the highest levels of poverty when speaking of regions.

In this sense, he defined the census as a planning tool par excellence. This year’s census began last Thursday, November 10, and is scheduled to end on the 23rd of this month.

Around 35,000 census takers scattered throughout the country participate in the process, who are duly identified with vests, caps and a QR code which can be scanned with the cell phone by the residents of the houses for greater security.