[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]The federal government will not extend the deadline of the digital census past May 15, 2023.
According to sources at the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the department would not extend the census deadline any further because it has already done so four times to achieve complete coverage and enumeration.
According to sources, PBS has listened to political parties’ concerns, particularly in Karachi, and has attempted to address them. PBS has detected some abnormalities, particularly in major cities, such as field enumerators’ disregard for their duties and insufficient deployment of security personnel for field staff.
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According to sources, PBS had signalled to provincial governments to take close notice of any misreporting by enumerators, provide enumerators with one-on-one security, and strictly monitor field enumeration by respective ACs and DCs.
According to sources, PBS identified and communicated with provincial governments a list of blocks with multistory buildings with reduced coverage, a list of blocks with negative population growth, and other important information using a digital system. PBS headquarters also delegated more officers/officials to assist regional governments in this regard.
Because to these initiatives and cooperative efforts by the PBS team and the government of Sindh, an increase of 8.2 million people has been recorded in the already completed blocks.
In addition to the above, PBS identified and shared with provincial governments another list of blocks identifying potential under coverage for rectification through targeted and coordinated combing operations to achieve total coverage. This project added an additional 4.6 million people to the already finished blocks.
According to sources, this digital census includes features such as geo-tagging of all structures and buildings used for residential and economic activities, as well as the collection of data on economic activities according to international classification to use as a framework to conduct the long-awaited economic census in the country, in addition to demographic and housing characteristics data.
The census’s additional features will serve as the foundation for evidence-based policy, planning, and decision-making to ensure good governance, as well as to determine the diversity, expansion, and sharing of various economic activities in our economy, which is critical to the nation’s prosperity.
Until May 11, 120,007,936 people had been counted in Punjab, 56,149,769 in Sindh, 39,596,664 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 20,634,606 in Balochistan, and 2,270,436 in the Islamabad Capital Territory.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
