Bank Of Baku

Azerbaijan wraps up population census

Azerbaijan wraps up population census
# 22 April 2009 14:02 (UTC +04:00)
According to the Committee, 24,000 people were hired and trained to conduct the census which started on April 13.

The country set up 19 000 enumeration stations across the country and every station counted about 17 000 to 18 000 people.

Each station had 35 canvassers and each canvasser counted 450 people on average.

Foreign nationals were counted with the help of embassies and consulates.

After the 10-day census, census papers are being submitted to the State Statistical Committee within a month as from the second half of May.

The data will be entered into the computer database and 10 booklets on various regions of the country and 1 booklet on the entire country will be published in 2010.

The government allocated AZN 8 million for the census.

The population census is held every 10 years. According to the latest official data by the State Statistics Committee, Azerbaijan’s population reached 8.753 million as at April 1, 2009.


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