TIRANA, June 17 /ATA/ On September 18, there will begin to get realized the Census of the population throughout the country.
Director of the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) Elsa Dhuli said to the media that about 7 thousand people will be employed for this process. The total cost is expected to reach 16.9 million euros.
The collection of information will be done by going to every house. If a citizen refuses to be part of the population census, there are foreseen penalties ranging from 50 to 100 thousand ALL.
“All residents in the Republic of Albania, based on the law on the census, are obliged to answer the content of the questionnaire, excluding three questions which are optional questions related to ethnicity, religion and language”, said Dhuli.
The collection of information will be done electronically and will last for 6 weeks.
Dhuli emphasized that there will be used the modern technique with tablets, cutting the time of getting the information from the ground to the center, cutting also the number of people working on the ground.
The 2023 Population and Housing Census will be the 12th Census, since Albania was declared an independent state in 1912, while the first census was carried out in 1923.
The Census of Population and Housing provides data on the official population count in a country, in the smallest geographical unit, together with information on a selected number of demographic, social and economic characteristics of the population.
Similarly, the Census of Housing provides the official count of all dwellings in the country in the smallest geographic unit, along with information on a selected number of housing characteristics. /p.s./
