First Digital Census.

Many countries around the world have digitized population counts to streamline and improve the accuracy of data. The first digital census in Pakistan is also underway and this is a great initiative for many reasons. Firstly, the aim is to collect population, housing, and various economic statistics including counting of services, businesses, and economic activities in houses. These economic statistics are being counted for the first time in Pakistan's data history. These counts are also being geotagged, a process that will allow public and private service delivery to be distributed according to specific demographics.

This measure of socioeconomic status will inform public policymakers and improve public welfare. Not only this, an efficient map can be used to plan better for constituencies and rescue and relief operations. However, the task is to make sure that digital services and geotagging locations will lead to an accurate data collection mechanism, and this is possible if enumerators are trained in the transparent collection.

The 2017 census faced many miscounts and underrepresentation of communities. Proof of this fact is the count of transgender people, which was...