Luanda - Seventy-nine 423 census agents, distributed in more than 1,900 classrooms, began Monday in the country's 164 municipalities, the last phase of the training process on the General Population and Housing Census (RGPH), which begins on the 19th of this month in Angola.
According to Hernani Pena Luís, spokesperson for the Multisectoral Commission to Support the Carrying Out of the 2024 Census, the training, which will take place over a period of 10 days, essentially aims to provide field agents with efficient persuasion techniques during interviews.
Speaking to the press today, the deputy director of the National Statistics Institute emphasised that, during the training period, the enumerators will discuss the topics of ‘Data collection procedures’, ‘The use of the information collection system’, ‘Protocol, security and privacy’ and ‘Communication skills’.
He assured that all census-takers will be paid, as in the 2014 Census.
As well as the field agents, Hernani Pena Luís said that the training programme will also cover communications professionals across the country this Tuesday, who will report on all incidents before, during and after the census process.
The last phase of the training process for census agents comes after the Cartographic Update and the Pilot Census.
The census will be carried out throughout Angolan territory, covering all ages, including babies and children, who are present in Angola at the time of the census, as well as counting all the dwellings in the country.
Foreigners who have lived in Angola for more than six months will also be included in the census.
The census is one of the country's most important events, as it allows information to be collected on how many people there are in the country, where and how citizens live, with a view to improving investment planning in the areas of housing, energy, basic sanitation, schools, health centres, roads and other essential services.
Under the slogan ‘Together we count for Angola’, the General Population and Housing Census/2024 will be the third in the country's history, the first being carried out in 1970, five years before Angola's independence, while the second took place in 2014.
The aim of this process is to provide a database for planning, management and decision-making, as well as to build a sampling frame for the selection of household survey samples.
The objectives also include knowing the population structure for all the country's administrative units, strengthening the national technical and material capacity to conduct future data collections. QCB/DAN/DOJ
