Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma will on Monday launch the 50 day countdown to the national census, the Presidency said.
Zuma will address a media together with National Planning Minister Trevor Manuel, said a statement.
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has launched a dress rehearsal for Census 2011, calling on all South Africans to get ready to participate in the third national population count since the advent of democracy in the country in 1994. It will deploy 120 000 officials across the country from 10 to 31 October 2011 to document South Africa’s entire population, including homeless people and illegal immigrants.
As part of its preparations for the census, Stats SA is conducting a countrywide “dress rehearsal” between 10 and 31 October 2011. Census 2011 will consist of three questionnaires: one for households, one for institutions, and one for people in transit. The last census was conducted in 2001.
South Africa’s population is believed to be in the region of 50 million. The results of Census 2011 are expected to be released in March 2013. – BuaNews
