INE to check General Population Census for omissions

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INE to check General Population Census for omissions

12:10 CAT | 21 Aug 2017

Folha de Maputo (File photo)

The National Institute of Statistics of Mozambique (INE) today announced a survey to assess the omissions recorded in the IV General Census of Population and Housing.

The IV General Census of Population and Housing took place from 1st to 15th of the current month. Data collected up until the 14th indicated that the operation counted 26.8 million inhabitants in Mozambique, corresponding to 98.9 percent of the projected 27.1 million people, nationals and foreigners included.

At a press conference held on Friday in Maputo, INE spokesman Cirilo Tembe said the inquiry would run from September 16 and will last 15 days.

“The coverage survey essentially aims to see to what extent we have good or poor coverage in the General Census of Population and Housing,” Tembe said.

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Tembe said that INE expected the rate of omission of information collected during the census would be below two percent.

“In 1997, we had an omission rate of around five percent. In 2007, this dropped to around two percent, and our view is that in 2017 this figure will be lower still,” Tembe said.

Tembe said the INE would release the preliminary census results by the end of the year and the definitive data in the middle of 2018.

The first General Census of Population in Mozambique was held in 1980, five years after independence, and was followed by those of 1997 and 2007, with an interval of ten years between each, as recommended by international practices.

Official figure put the country’s population at about 27.1 million, a 30 percent increase since the 2007 census.

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Source: Lusa