The central steering committee for population and housing census inspects in Tien Giang

ABO - On April 5, Deputy Head of the central steering committee for for the fifth national census of population and housing Nguyen Bich Lam, General Director of the General Statistics Office, inspected the census in Tien Giang province.

At the working session. Photo: thtg.vn

Up to 10 a.m on April 5, 2019, Tien Giang province completed a survey of 127 specific areas; 120,033 households interviewed households accounted for 23.5%, of which Cho Gao district had the fastest completion rate of 33%; the number of enumeration areas has not been interviewed as 1,278.
In general, the organization of preparing for the census was implemented in accordance with the investigation plan. The steering committee at all levels closely followed the program, the plan to ensure the timely progress; dividing the area, drawing the map of communes, wards and towns to facilitate the investigators.

However, through the monitoring process, investigators collected information from households in CAPI software had some difficulties such as many households working far away, workers in clusters and industrial areas, etc... Using computers and smartphones to collect information but the program often failed, the network was obstructed, etc...

Through inspection, General Director of the General Statistics Office Nguyen Bich Lam highly appreciated the implementation of the census of Tien Giang province, and proposed the Tien Giang province steering committee to continue to stick close and comply with the plan and process of the central steering committee, in which the localities have a large number of enumeration areas to ensure the quality and progress of the investigation; strengthening the inspection and supervision of the level of completion of enumeration areas.

In the process of collecting information, investigators should note information about the demographics and qualifications of family members; at the same time, continuing to implement well the propaganda for the census to achieve high results.

(According to thtg.vn – Translated by HUU TAM)