Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung hosted a teleconference with authorities of all 63 cities and provinces across the country on March 24 in preparation for the upcoming 2009 general population and housing census.
“The results of the census will serve as an important ground for the Party and the Government to review the 10-year socio-economic strategy and prepare for the next ten years,” said Deputy PM Hung, who doubled as Head of the Central Steering Committee for Population and Housing Census.
“The census is a key task of the entire Party and people as well as authorities nationwide, so all forces need to focus on successfully completing the census,” he stressed.
He asked the mass media and authorities to help raise the people’s awareness of the importance, significance and requirements of the census and provide accurate and full information to census takers.
The Deputy PM also asked the population and housing census steering committees at all levels to provide necessary logistics for the enumeration.
According to Chief of the General Statistics Office Nguyen Duc Hoa, who worked as Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee, all localities have to date completed the mapping work and census lists and are working on population lists.
As many as 5,000 training courses have been organised for officials of local population and housing census steering committees to learn about census management skills and for 30,000 census takers.
As many as 87 million people of 21 million households will take part in the census, which will officially kick off on April 1.
The general census is undertaken every 10 years and this year’s will be the fourth after those in 1979, 1989, and 1999.
“The results of the census will serve as an important ground for the Party and the Government to review the 10-year socio-economic strategy and prepare for the next ten years,” said Deputy PM Hung, who doubled as Head of the Central Steering Committee for Population and Housing Census.
“The census is a key task of the entire Party and people as well as authorities nationwide, so all forces need to focus on successfully completing the census,” he stressed.
He asked the mass media and authorities to help raise the people’s awareness of the importance, significance and requirements of the census and provide accurate and full information to census takers.
The Deputy PM also asked the population and housing census steering committees at all levels to provide necessary logistics for the enumeration.
According to Chief of the General Statistics Office Nguyen Duc Hoa, who worked as Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee, all localities have to date completed the mapping work and census lists and are working on population lists.
As many as 5,000 training courses have been organised for officials of local population and housing census steering committees to learn about census management skills and for 30,000 census takers.
As many as 87 million people of 21 million households will take part in the census, which will officially kick off on April 1.
The general census is undertaken every 10 years and this year’s will be the fourth after those in 1979, 1989, and 1999.
Vietnam Net
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