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Census 2012 passes six-week duration

Nov 28, 2012 News

 

–    Two Regions fully completed
The Bureau of Statistics has announced that two of the ten Regions are completed, while in excess of 90% has been completed in two other regions for the 2012 Census enumeration exercise. In addition, the second phase – the editing and coding of the completed questionnaires – has simultaneously commenced, for which a further eighty-one (81) temporary staff were trained and are now employed.
“Region two and five are fully completed, and Region six is also effectively completed with completion rate 99.0%, with just a small number of rechecks to be finalized in both. Likewise Region nine is 95.7% completed with just one very remote location now being accessed by a team from Head office, which would conclude the full coverage of Region nine. Region 10 is 82.9% completed, with work in progress to complete the outstanding riverain areas/communities in the shortest possible time. All other areas including the densely populated Region Four are on average over 75% completed,” the Bureau disclosed.
Noting that the census has continued into the current month of November, Chief Census Officer, Lennox Benjamin said that “… the concept of the census is that there should be a total count, therefore the enumeration period would be brought to a close when the enumerators have completed a total count of the resident population.”
Adding that the enumeration staff did their best in the face of some challenges experienced in the field during the early stages, he explained that the enumeration exercise commenced on Census Day, September 15, 2012, and was projected to last for an initial period of six weeks.
Benjamin explained that “the six-week time frame was an administrative decision based on best estimates at the time and was not a legal requirement for the conduct of the Census.” The Census Officer noted that he has the freedom to extend the period in the interest of the quality of the enumeration.
As reported earlier, the census exercise has moved apace in many areas of the country, but challenges remain in some remote areas of Regions one, seven, eight and nine, and in pockets of densely populated areas, especially Region Four.
Overall, the enumeration exercise benefited from the prevailing weather conditions which made travel to many locations easy. However, in some areas the low rainfall caused considerably reduced water levels in rivers and creeks making access along some of the waterways difficult.
It was further explained that in some pockets of the densely populated areas of Region Four, there is a significantly high number of requested ‘call-back’ and there also remains embedded pockets of reluctance to cooperate with enumerators. In many of these areas, management teams were required to make visits to support enumerators experiencing difficulty.  Benjamin disclosed that on the positive side, there are many areas where the enumerators have benefitted from the activities of community leaders who have helped by providing explanations and education to their fellow residents.

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