How a population and housing census can be conducted after an epidemic, pandemic or a national crisis?
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
The population and housing census is the entire official process of enumeration of a country's
residents and houses at a specified time. This process includes planning, demographic data
collection, compilation, evaluation, analysis and dissemination. The census process is crucial
for planning and policymaking to advance the country. In December 2019, there was the
discovery of a deadly disease, COVID-19, which later spread globally and emerged to be a
pandemic. The pandemic had detrimental effects on various aspects of life and especially on
the census process in over seventy countries.
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Magister Philosophiae - MPhil
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Data collection, Housing census, Population census, Geographic Information System (GIS), Africa, Covid-19