Rwanda shall hold a nationwide population census in April 2012. During which House-to-House visits by enumerators will collect information about people living in Rwanda on Census Day – 15 August 2012.
The Population and Housing Census (PHC) will generate crucial data for measuring Rwandan Socio-economic progress and for providing an evidence base that can guide national policymaking.
16,500 enumerators, including one for every village (umudugudu), will visit every household in Rwanda. Final results will be published within ten months of Census Day, observing that “data delayed is data denied”.
The previous and 3rd General Census of Population and Housing was held in Rwanda in August 2002 aimed at improving knowledge on the socio-demographic characteristics of the inhabitants of Rwanda in order to ensure a more rigorous integration of the “population” variable into social and economic plans and programmers.
The 2002 census also aimed at updating statistical database on population, especially after the traumatic incidents of the early 1990s which had far reaching effects on the status and evolution of the population.
In other words, on the size, structure and spatial distribution of this population on the one hand, and on its internal dynamics resulting from the interplay of fertility and mortality levels and migratory flows.
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