Mwanza. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has introduced a question on the provision of social services in a questionnaire on next month’s census.
“We want to know the availability of these services countrywide,” census official Said Ameir said at the weekend.
He told reporters that they had a vital role to play to ensure the counting of every Tanzanian on August 26. “You have to write about it responsibly,” he said.
According to him, more than 45,798,475 people are expected to be counted countrywide, with the Lake Zone regions having to have about a half of the number. Family heads will give information on their academic levels.
During the census, information on maternal mortality deaths will also be collected. Enumerators will move from house to house to collect data. It will cost the government Sh141.5 billion to carry out the census for five or six days. After the pilot census was conducted in October last year it was established that it was important to rephrase some questions.
Tanzania conducts its population census once in every 10 years. When Tanganyika (which merged with Zanzibar in 1964 to form Tanzania) got independence in 1961 it had a population of eight million. Now the country’s population is more than 45 million.
