Given the absence of citizens in their homes for reasons of work, study or travel and the impossibility of coinciding with the enumerators of the Tenth National Population and Housing Census, many wonder if they can delegate the census responses to others, in this case to a neighbor or neighbor who is present.
Although it is true that some residents consider themselves family in view of the years of living together in the same space, and where trust prevails, there are already established limits for this process in this aspect, mainly aimed at interviewers.
This is what the director of the Census of the National Statistics Office (ONE), Víctor Romero, comments when answering questions and concerns from the readers of listindiario.com in your digital meeting.
Romero explained that in the event of a citizen not being at home when the census workers pass by, the latter will proceed to ask the neighbors the hours that these people would be at home, to later coincide with them and provide coverage. of place.
In addition, he said that with the neighbors they also investigate whether people live in a house or not. However, they do not look for answers contained in detail in the form, since they must be answered by the family in question.
“Neighbors are not qualified to provide relevant information to other homes, that is exclusive to those who live in their respective homes”Romero told readers ofDaily List.
The person in charge stressed that they recognize that there are citizens who, due to their level of trust, leave keys, children and animals at a neighbor’s house, but in the case of the census, it does not apply that people outside the family answer the survey.
Here are some of the questions answered by Romero to Listín readers:
I work all day and it is very difficult for me to meet with Census personnel. What happens in those cases?
In those cases what is sought is to have an appointment with people, we also work on weekends, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Although they have been modified in some places from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm
Does the extension of the Census mean an increase in the budget that was initially planned?
The extension has a budgetary impact, especially the part of the travel expenses and if it goes beyond the 27th and 28th, it also has an impact on the fees.
What is the census really for?
The census is a tool that allows you as a society to plan public and private policies with data. For example, the number of children in a sector to build a school or college.
Why doesn’t the Census ask the nationality of the inhabitants?
What the census collects is the resident population of a territory, that is what the census normally asks. It is not an instrument for migratory purposes.
What percentage of the population has already been registered as of today?
The information that we can share is that in 25 provinces over 95% of that population have been registered. And in the rest it has been registered over 25%.
There are allegations that Census enumerators are affixing the stickers without actually stopping the houses. Is that true, have you been able to verify it?
There are several situations, an unoccupied house is registered, a rejected house is also registered, a house under construction is also registered. And they are normal census processes. There is also the possibility of malicious people peeling off a sticker and sticking it on some other door.
Greetings, I am from the Province of Valverde, Municipality of Esperanza, and my question is the following. Why do they label my house with a census if I was not in it at that time and they never came back, so I am left without being censused?
Valverde is within the provinces that are ending, but probably the census takers passed several times, it was not obtained and it was registered as absentee housing. After the census is completed, a coverage recovery operation will be carried out to cover those missing homes.
