Media awareness stressed for countrywide first-ever Digital Population Census 2023.

Spokesperson of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Muhammad Sarwar Gondal on Sunday stressed for media awareness for the society about the first-ever digital population census 2023 in the country which would continue for one month to help make future development plans, creation of jobs, assembly seats and for keeping development funds for urban and rural areas. Around 121000 field enumerators have been deployed for the purpose, he said while talking to PTV news channel.

Muhammad Sarwar Gondal further said during this phase, the enumerators are visiting door-to-door with the latest tablet technology to collect household family data, adding that the aim of the census was to collect and collate details about property usage, types of businesses and the demographics of individuals, nationals and residents alike. 'The government aims to conduct this census to plan better policies for the growth and development of the society', he added.

To a question, Gondal replied, 'There are already many reservations over the sixth population census conducted in 2017, and now after a long gap of five years, we are again conducting a digital population census with the coordination of all provincial stakeholders.'

He urged the citizens to actively participate in the census and their personal information would remain confidential.

'All the nationals and residents, families and private sector...