Maldives kicks off nationwide census exercise
This year's census will be carried out from 13-25 September and will include a census of population, residential homes, and economic activity centres.
By
Ahmed Mizyal
Maldives on Tuesday kicked off a nationwide census exercise to collect statistics on the population, residential areas and economic activities of the country.
The Maldives had its first census exercise in 1985, and the last exercise was conducted in 2014.
This year's census will be carried out from 13-25 September and will include a census of population, residential homes, and economic activity centres.
More than 4000 enumerators and over 100 trainers have been recruited for this country-wide exercise, which will provide the key information at national, atoll and island-level to provide necessary public services effectively.
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih visited Dharubaaruge where the enumerators and other officials from the Statistics Bureau are stationed Tuesday afternoon.
Addressing the census officials, President Solih urged all citizens to support the census.
Statistics Bureau had earlier said that the census report will be published in October.
