A department of Neuquén with just over 2,000 inhabitants was the one that responded the most to the data from the Digital Census since its opening on March 16, an innovative modality that was put into practice this year in the face of the traditional house-by-house survey that will be carried out on May 18, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec).
The department of Catán Lil, (which in the Mapuche language means perforated rocks) is one of the 16 into which the province of Neuquén is divided and has 2,084 inhabitants according to the 2010 Census.
In Catán Lil, almost 3 out of 10 homes (30%) that are expected to be registered this year have already chosen the digital modality.
Throughout the country, more than 3.2 million people completed the online census questionnaire in the first 15 days, and the provinces of La Pampa and Tierra del Fuego lead the ranking, where the largest number of forms were completed.
On the census.gob.ar website, 1.3 million private homes were entered, of which 1,133,271 have already obtained proof of completion, which will be required by the census taker when they pass by each address.
Catán Lil is followed by the department of Río Hondo, in Santiago del Estero, where 18.5% of private homes already have their proof of the digital Census, while in Rivadavia, Tupungato, Lavalle and Santa Rosa, in Mendoza , the percentage exceeds 16% of the houses that are expected to be surveyed.
Meanwhile, in La Cocha, province of Tucumán, almost 15 out of every 100 homes have already been registered digitally; in Junín (Mendoza) it is about to reach 15% and the Pampas localities of Guatraché, Catriló, Chalileo and Conhelo oscillate between 12 and 14% of the calculated dwellings.
On this occasion and, unlike in previous years, the 2022 census began to take place in two modalities: on the one hand, the face-to-face survey can be answered on May 18, and on the other, people will be able to “self-census” through the site web censo.gob.ar until that same day at 8.
In the traditional house-to-house visit, census takers will visit more than 15 million homes and it is estimated that more than 45 million people will be counted throughout the country.
For this reason, the objective of the Digital Census is to save time for the population and census takers, while methodological and technological innovations will allow obtaining “a more exact picture” of the population, reported from INDEC.
In both La Pampa and Tierra del Fuego, 1 out of 10 households have already completed the digital census.
While in the central province of Argentina more than 16,000 private homes completed it, which means that 10.5% of the households expected to be registered in that district already have their digital receipt, in Tierra del Fuego they did so just over 10% of the expected residences (almost 7,800).
Meanwhile, the Fuegian department that made the most progress in the digital survey is Río Grande, which exceeds 11% of households surveyed.
Another district where the digital modality advanced was the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), where more than 145,000 households completed the online questionnaire, almost 9.5% of those expected to be included in the census.
In this jurisdiction the Communes 10 (Floresta, Monte Castro, Vélez Sársfield, Versalles, Villa Luro and Villa Real), 12 (Coghlan, Saavedra, Villa Urquiza and Villa Pueyrredón), 8 (Villa Soldati, Villa Lugano and Villa Riachuelo), 9 (Parque Avellaneda, Liniers and Mataderos) and 11 (Villa General Mitre, Villa Devoto, Villa del Parque and Villa Santa Rita), in that order, are the ones that lead the ranking in the digital survey.
Mendoza, with almost 50,000 private households that completed the online form, is in fourth place among the most advanced provinces in the first fifteen days, which in percentage is close to 9% of households.
Finally, Neuquén, with more than 21,200 private homes (almost 8%), is the fifth district with the largest number of homes registered online.
The Indec also revealed that in the first fifteen days of the Digital Census, the time when the forms were filled out the most was between 12:00 and 6:00 p.m., when 35 of every 100 households that participated did so, while also in that period More than 25,500 calls were received requesting assistance and information to the free line 0800-345-2022, which is available from Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
You can also request assistance through the email [email protected].
