More than 23.8 million of people completed the digital form of the 2022 National Census, which implies that approximately one out of every two inhabitants of the country chose this modality to carry out the census process, informed the director of the Indec, Marco Lavagna.
“exceeded all expectations we had and will allow the field operative be done a lot faster”said the official during a press conference at the headquarters of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec).
Lavagna specified that 23,813,773 people completed the digital form, which involves 8,615,318 homes.
“In the last 72 hours, 2,023,869 homes completed the digital census,” he added.
This modality was launched on March 16 and ended this Wednesday at 8, before the traditional territorial survey began.
“I ask the population to collaborate with the census takers, please collaborate; let’s try to do a census as quickly as we can”Marco Lavagna
“It is a very good number, we are very happy with the result of this operation, it was a challenge and clearly exceeded all the expectations we had and the field operation is going to be done much faster,” the official insisted.
Likewise, Lavagna asked the population to collaborate with the census takers who will visit some 17 million homes during the operation, which began at 8 a.m. throughout the country and is scheduled to end at 6 p.m.
“I ask the population to collaborate with the census takers, please collaborate; let’s try to do a census as quickly as we can,” exhorted the director of Indec, who reported that 652,000 people are participating in the operation and recalled that in order to check information from the Census takers can be called at 0800-345-2022.
The census will provide statistical data on the number of inhabitants of Argentina, the infrastructure conditions of their homes, their educational levels, their self-perceived gender identity and whether they recognize themselves as indigenous or descendants of native peoples or Afro-descendants or of black or African ancestors. among other information.
The 2010 Census, the last edition carried out in the country, twelve years ago, had reported a total of 40,117,096 inhabitants.
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