Bangladesh to begin first digital population census at 12am Wednesday

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Bangladesh to begin first digital population census at 12am Wednesday​

2022-06-14 21:47:45
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com

The first Digital Population and Housing Census of Bangladesh will begin at 12am Wednesday with the count of floating people

Authorities will collect information on 365,697 devices over seven days and ask for 35 pieces of information from every citizen around the country.

Population and Housing Census 2022 Project Director Dilder Hossain on Tuesday said the survey of the floating people will be carried out in 20,000 locations and end at 6am Wednesday.
The main phase of the sixth population census will then begin at 8am and continue until Jun 21.

The census will be carried out by as many as 63,548 supervisors, 3,779 IT supervisors, 3,779 zonal officers, 163 district census coordinators and 12 divisional census coordinators.

The fifth census was done in 2011 and the one scheduled in 2021 was delayed by the pandemic.

The internet on the tabs being used for data collection will be provided by mobile network operator Robi. Each questionnaire entry from a numerator will automatically be submitted to the database and then to the data centre of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics or BBS.

The census will include family members living overseas to estimate the correct number of expatriates, and also foreigners living in Bangladesh.

In this census, enumerators will account households and people living in each home separately, along with types of houses, their ownership, sources of drinking water, toilet facilities, electricity connection, sources of cooking fuels, and socio-economic information, among others.

Dilder called on everyone to assist the project and assured that all information will remain confidential.

HAMID, HASINA MESSAGES

On the eve of the occasion, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave messages wishing success of the census.

In his message, Hamid said: "I welcome the initiative of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics to conduct a nationwide digital census and data collection program from Jun 15-21, 2022.”

“The Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) method of collecting data in the census and the use of digital technology in data collection activities will require less time in data collection and processing,” the president added.

Hasina said: "The greatest Bengali of all time and Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had realised the essential importance of statistics in formulating proper plan for the reconstruction of war-torn Bangladesh and monitoring the future development and progress of the country.”

The Statistics Division was created under the Ministry of Planning in 1975 to coordinate the overall activities of the BBS, now known as the Department of Statistics and Information Management, she added.

The prime minister said the Awami League-led government is committed to collecting and publishing acceptable and standard statistics for making pragmatic decisions and plans in all fields.

"Therefore, I strongly urge the people of the country to provide all kinds of assistance to the census-related workers in providing proper information and conducting data collection activities," Hasina added.

Bangladesh to begin first digital population census at 12am Wednesday

The first Digital Population and Housing Census of Bangladesh will begin at 12am Wednesday with the count of floating people

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[Dual Wielder]

@OP I'm guessing you won't be included as your allegedly a Bharti?

 

[Black_cats]

@OP I'm guessing you won't be included as your allegedly a Bharti?

Many Bhakti will be included! Don’t worry about that!

Bangladesh launches digital population, housing census Wednesday

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14 June, 2022, 08:40 pm
Last modified: 14 June, 2022, 10:48 pm

Bangladesh launches digital population, housing census Wednesday

Around 3.70 lakh enumerators will collect the data countrywide from 15-21 June, for planned development of the country, said the planning minister

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Around 3.70 lakh enumerators will collect the data countrywide from 15-21 June, for planned development of the country, said the planning minister​

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Bangladesh's 6th population and housing census is set to begin from 12pm Wednesday (15 June), which will be conducted digitally for the first time in the country.

Meanwhile Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has completed all preparation following the United Nations (UN)-set three types counting method – de facto, de jure and modified de facto.

State Minister for Planning Shamsul Alam said this in a press conference, held at the National Economic Council (NEC) conference hall on Tuesday.

He said that around 3.70 lakh enumerators will collect the data countrywide from 15-21 June, for planned development of the country.
He urged all to cooperate with the enumerators to enroll in the population census which is a very important integrated planning and development of the people.l

Alam said a huge preparation has been taken to collect information of people in 35 criteria so that the government can make decisions for different state services based on this data.

Replying to a query the state minister said the data of all citizens will be preserved securely and without BBS none can access the server of data or distorted the data.

The BBS has completed a trial of information collection process for the enumerators in several phases and constructed a census area for each 100 households.

Training and technology adoption for digital data collection has also been completed to do the huge work in a prescribed time across the country which will be monitored digitally by mobile device management (MDM) and Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI).

Main objectives of census population and housing are – calculating the total population by counting the members of each house and families, determining the number of houses/dwellings in the country; collection of data for adoption of overall development plan, providing information for determining constituencies in local and national elections; and providing information aimed at ensuring equitable distribution of national resources, said BBS.

According to the BBS, through population and household census 2022, all common households of the country, institutional households, floating/homeless population, number and type of households, household ownership, main source of drinking water, toilet facilities, electricity facilities, main source of cooking fuel, economic activities.

Besides, information related to foreign remittances will be collected. The enumerators also provide demographic socio-economic information of the members living in the household, such as age, gender, relationship with the household head, marital status, religion, disability, education, work, training, mobile phone and internet usage, bank/mobile banking account, ethnicity, nationality, self-districts etc information will collect in this census.

The first population census in Bangladesh was conducted in 1974. Subsequently, the population and housing censuses were held again in 1981, 1991, 2001, and 2011.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

I am counted yesterday. A lady came with an iPad and stored data in that obtained by face to face questionnaire.

 

[Destranator]

Very good initiative by BBS.
The ground game is going strong from what I am hearing.
We are actually doing it better than even some developed countries which rely heavily on online self-reporting.
Good work must be appreciated.

 

[Bilal9]

I am counted yesterday. A lady came with an iPad and stored data in that obtained by face to face questionnaire.

Desh "Dijital" hoi gesey.

Here's an SNL skit with the celebrated Betty White (RIP) and Tina Fey, love them both dearly....

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Very good initiative by BBS.
The ground game is going strong from what I am hearing.
We are actually doing it better than even some developed countries which rely heavily on online self-reporting.
Good work must be appreciated.

Compared to many other developing countries, Bangladesh is quite serious about conducting regular census. It never defualted in it until COVID-19 made it impossible last year. Even in 1974 when Bangladesh was recovering from the war and experiencing a big famine, first census was conducted. Then regular census happened in 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011. If there was no COVID-19, then it surely have happened last year. Most of the countries are still not ready to do the decadal census that was due at 2020/2021 period. One superpower country delayed it to 2023-2024.