The Statistician-General, together with the Namibian Police and other stakeholders announced the start of the 2016 Intercensal Demographic & Labor Force Survey.The survey,
which is aimed at collecting information on socio-demographic characteristics
of the population and Labour force, captures information on socio-economic
characteristics of the population. The surveys, Intercensal Demographic &
Labour Force, will run concurrently from the 17
th of October up to
the 11
th of November 2016.
At a joint
press conference, that included the Namibian Police, Councilors from Windhoek
West and East as well as staff from the Office of the Governor of the Khomas
Region, the Statistician-General took the time out to announce that they have
decided to include law enforcement agencies to highlight the fact that the
Statistics Act, Section 43, 1(b) protects the Namibia Statistics Agency from
refusals which includes a penalty. Often we receive refusals from households
that do not want to participate.
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