Census Problems.

Pakistan's first-ever digital census, a time and resource-costly exAercise, is already causing disruptions. The PPP, a part of the rulAing PDM coalition, has expressed concern for their continued involvement in the coalition and a reason cited is the census being conducted. According to the FM and party chairman, Bilawal Bhutto, it remains unacceptable that provincial polls are conducted based on different census results.

This is the seventh national census, and it is true that the endeavour has been taken on so close to the general elections and that causes comAplications. He further conditioned the federal government to respond to his claims of fraud in the data collecting activity. This is a serious issue.

As with any census, there are concerns about undercounting, inaccuAracy, and exclusion of groups. The activity of geotagging, undertaken in the ongoing digital enumeration, reduces these errors to an extent as the data collected is real-time and can be verified. Likewise, given the large miscounting errors in the previous census, discrediting the curArent one at such an early stage is wrong and some confidence in the acAtivity would benefit the exercise.

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