KARACHI: The Pakistan Bureau of Statics (PBS) all set for the sixth population census, which will start from today.
All the preparations have been finalized for the exercise. In the first phase, the census will be carried out in Punjab’s 16 districts, eights of Sindh, 14 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15 of Balochistan and five districts each of Azad Jamu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).
The census team will be comprised of a enumerator and one army personnel. Police and Rangers will provide security shield to the team. Each enumerator will have to cover two blocks.
According to the PBS, one CNIC of a family is mandatory to prove their identity. The enumerator will spend 14 days in each block, for which three days will be assigned for house listing operation and filing the form A, in which area name, building serial number, building type, household serial number, head of the family’s name, CNIC and economic activities of the household are listed.
The next 10 days will be assigned for the filing of form 2. This form will include questions such as names of all the people in the household, their relation with the head of family, gender, age, marital status, religion, nationality, literacy, occupation during the last 12 months, nature of residence, drinking water source, etc.
One day is assigned for enlisting of homeless people in each block. This is the first time in history that transgender persons and Bedouins will be counted in the country’s population census.
Two days will be given for retrieval of documents and then the enumerator will move to the second assigned block.
