The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Tuesday extended the date of the country’s ongoing digital census till 30th April.
According to the PBS, the final date of the census has been extended by 5 days to 30th April.
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“In pursuance of the meeting of Census, Monitoring Committee held on 15th April 2023, the Chief Census Commissioner/Chief Statistician, PBS has been pleased to approve the further extension in the census fieldwork for five days wef 26th April — 30th April 2023,” a notification from the bureau said.
According to the notification, the date has been extended due to negative growth rate in some districts and data verification in others to ensure “complete coverage and assurance of no leftover structure/houses in the selected districts/big cities where negative growth rate or very slow growth rate [has been] observed”.
According to the list provided by the bureau, there are 12 districts and cities across four provinces where the date has been extended due to the negative growth of population. These include Quetta, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Karachi, Hyderabad and Islamabad. A decrease in population was observed in Karachi Central, South, West, East, Malir, Kemari and Orangi.
Furthermore, a decrease or a small increase in population was also observed in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Hyderabad, and Quetta.
Remember that, Digital Census officially started across Pakistan by 1st March. Regarding this a portal has already been launched by the bureau of statistics so that people can submit their data themselves and doesn’t need to give data to census teams visiting door-to-door.
Now the government body has been extending its deadline for completing the census work to ensure proper execution of the remaining count and ensure 100% coverage.
This is the fourth time that the date for the population count has been extended. Earlier, the PBS extended its date till April 10, 15 and 20 respectively.
