Luanda - The secretary of State for Media, Nuno Caldas Albino, on Tuesday in the Province of Luanda urged journalists to carry out comprehensive work on the General Population and Housing Census (RGPH-2024) process.
The government official, who was speaking during the first training seminar on the Housing and Population Census scheduled to happen this year, considered that journalists play a crucial role in mobilising citizens to participate fully in the process, set for 19 July this year.
For him, media professionals are irreplaceable keys to interacting and conveying the importance of carrying out the general population and housing census in order to obtain better results.
Dozens of participants from different media organisations in Luanda Province were trained in issues related to the objectives, importance, basic principles and stages of this process, in an initiative by the National Statistics Institute (INE), in coordination with the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Social Communication (MINTTICS).
For him, the training session will enable professionals to better handle news stories, as well as facilitating dissemination among families and the quality of media coverage.
In turn, the director general of INE, José Calienji said that journalists are the main spokespersons for the process and urged the creation of content to increase the dissemination of this activity.
"There are 94 days to go and there is an urgent need to bring more information to the communities through the media, in the different national (vernacular) languages", he said.
However, some participants heard by ANGOP were unanimous in considering the meeting to be timely.
Census/2024
The General Population and Housing Census (RGPH-2024), known as Census/2024, will be carried out in the country's 18 provinces, 164 municipalities and 562 localities including communes, districts, neighbourhoods and villages, within 30 days.
The process is based on the search for data that will allow for greater equity in the distribution of wealth, the allocation of funds for access to housing, health, education, employment and basic sanitation.
This operation is mainly financed by the Angolan Government and has the technical assistance of international consultancies from Brazil, South Africa and Portugal, as well as the World Bank.
Pilot Census
This is the stage that serves as the basis for testing and verifying the capacity to collect information nationwide. It took place from July to September last year in seven provinces, namely Luanda, Bengo, Lunda-Norte, Uíge, Bié, Cuando Cubango and Cunene.
In the 2014 census, Angola had about 25,789,24 inhabitants, of which six million 945,386 lived in the country's capital.
The process revealed that the majority of the country's population was made up of women, exactly around 13 million, while the number of men was approximately 12 million.
The process revealed that the majority of the country's population was made up of women, approximately 13 million, while the number of men was around 12 million.
The 2024 general census will be the second after national independence and the third in the country's history, after those carried out in 2014 and during the colonial period in 1970.
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