By PIA
Public urged: Be counted for 2010 census on population, housing
Cebu, Philippines (1 March 2010) -- Be counted for the 2010 Census of Population and Housing on May 17-June 8, 2010!
Ariel Florendo, regional director, National Statistics Office (NSO-7) in Central Visayas issued this call to all as he makes the rounds in attending meetings, briefings and media forums for awareness and information campaign on the importance of the Census on Population and Housing.
The 2010 CPH is the entire process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing, publishing, and disseminating data about the population and the living quarters in a country.
"It entails the listing and recording of the characteristics of each individual and each living quarter as of a specified time and within a specified territory," Florendo added.
Florendo said, the NSO is mandated to take an integrated census every 10 years beginning in 1980 under PB# 72. Based on that mandate, NSO will conduct the 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH) in May 2010 with May 1, 2010, 12:01 A.M. as reference date and time.
"It means all population counts to be recorded shall pertain to this date and time," he added.
Florendo said, about 85,000 census personnel including enumerators, team supervisors, census area supervisors and assistant census area supervisors are mobilized for the nationwide census.
"Majority of these enumerators are teachers and the gathering of data are done through house-to-house visits and personal interviews of the household head or any responsible member of the household," the NSO-7 regional director said.
The 2010 CPH will also include visits in hospitals, sanitaria, penitentiary, military camps, convents, seminaries and others for the institutional population living in institutional living quarters.
In areas where personal interviews are not possible, the respondents are asked to accomplish the 2010 CPH questionnaire with specific instructions that will be provided by the enumerators as guide.
Florendo assures the public that any information gathered during the enumeration are held strictly confidential as guaranteed under Section 4 of Commonwealth Act #591.
He added that the same Act provides penalty, (if convicted) to any person that unjustifiably refuses to provide answers in the census questionnaire, or to anybody who knowingly gives false or wrong information.
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