THE National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) and the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) plan to move the decade census to September this year due to the coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.
In a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua said they will be writing to the House of Representatives and Senate of the Philippines regarding the matter.
According to Batas Pambansa 72, the government needs to conduct a population census every 10 years beginning 1980. The census should be conducted starting on the first day of May.
“We will be writing to both Houses of Congress to seek your indulgence [regarding this matter] at this difficult time,” Chua said.
Chua said the decision to move the census takes into consideration the safety of enumerators and households at this time.
The 2020 CPH will be the 15th census of population and 7th census of housing to be undertaken in the country since the first census in 1903.
The CPH refers to the entire process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing, publishing and disseminating data about the population and living quarters in a country.
It entails the listing and recording of the characteristics of each individual and each living quarter as of a specified time and within a specified territory.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2020/05/20/census-to-be-moved-from-may-to-september/
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