TIRANA, Sept 18 /ATA/ The Director of the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT), Elsa Dhuli, stated that the process of counting citizens and their housing conditions has started on Monday in the entire territory of the country.
In a media statement about 6 hours after the official kickoff of the process, Dhuli called on every citizen in the country to devote a few minutes to the registration process, cooperating with the enumerators in the field as the Census is a public good in their interest.
“All over the territory of the Republic of Albania, INSTAT employees, enumerators, controllers and supervisors have gone out in the field to count the resident population in Albania and their housing conditions”, informed Dhuli.
According to her, this is a statistical process, but of paramount importance for the country.
“Up until now, referring to the monitoring system as well as representatives of INSTAT in the field, the process is running smoothly. Most of the pollsters are registered in the application. About 1,500 interviews are in the process, of which about 800 questionnaires have been completed,” said Dhuli.
According to her, this process will last 6 weeks.
“The collected data helps the government to decide how to distribute funds and grants to regions and municipalities. Local authorities will use this information to determine where to build, starting from schools, housing and hospitals to roads and water supply systems,” said Dhuli.
She explained that the law provides penalties for anyone who refuses to answer the questionnaire.
“The activity of the Census is based on a legal basis and the answer to the questionnaire is mandatory. It goes without saying that there are penalties for anyone who refuses,” Dhuli announced.
She said there are 3 optional questions and they are related to ethnicity, religion and language.
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