The government has delayed the seventh population and housing census by three months. The move means that the fieldwork, which was initially scheduled to start this month and finish on March 4 of 2023, will instead start on February 1 and cover 180,000 census blocks across the country.
The census has been postponed, according to a formal announcement from the Ministry of Planning. According to the notice, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has been requested to deliver a new summary to the Council of Common Interests and the Prime Minister’s Office by the Federal Minister for Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal.
In order to promote understanding and ownership of the census process by provinces, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) started a series of sensitization seminars with chief secretaries, pertinent secretaries, and officials at the provincial level earlier in May.
The first awareness workshop for the impending 7th Population and Housing Census 2022 was introduced by PBS in this context. It would be the country of Pakistan’s first-ever digital census.
The workshop’s objective was to inform attendees of activities that had previously been accomplished as well as of impending plans, methods, resources, and guidelines for the census’s successful finish.
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