The Government of the Republic of Zambia has issued a Statutory Instrument to gazette the period 18 August, 2022 to 14 September, 2022 as the official dates for the country to undertake the 6th National Census of Population and Housing. The Statutory Instrument (No. 92 of 2021) was signed by the Minister of Finance and National Planning, Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane, MP, and gazetted on 31st December 2021.
The designation of Census dates will now enable the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats) to intensify preparations. The Zambia Statistics Agency is mandated to conduct the Census of Population and Housing (CPH) every ten years as per Statistics Act No. 13 of 2018.
The upcoming CPH will adopt the Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) technique. This will involve gathering information with the use of an electronic questionnaire, on computer tablets. This is a improvement on the previous Censuses which were paper-based and is meant to introduce cost effectiveness in the collection and processing of data.
ZamStats will soon release the Census roadmap, outlining key activities leading to the 2022 National Census of Population and Housing.
Thanks. These are the simple things PF was failing to do. How do you fail in everything
If the government would be digitally equipped, with sufficient proper data of the entire population, censuses would be totally unnecessary and even obsolete. Now they have multiple databases (driving licenses, land, etc) but they need to go and visit every address in person. Madness and very expensive.