City readies for census
Saturday, March 20, 2010
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PREPARATIONS are underway for the conduct of 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH) in May this year by the National Statistics Office (NSO), a local official said Saturday.
Mayor Celso Lobregat said he has issued an order reconstituting the City Census Coordination Board (CCCB).
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The mayor was designated as the chairman of the CCCB, while the City Division of Schools Superintendent is the designated vice chairman with members coming from other government offices and agencies, private sector, barangay officials, police and the military.
Lobregat said he has tasked City Civil Registrar Eric Elias to determine what assistance and support the local government can extend the NSO in the conduct of the CPH in Zamboanga City.
He said they will employ the services of more than 700 enumerators to cover the entire city of Zamboanga.
The CPH refers to the entire process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing, publishing and disseminating data about the population and the living quarters in the country.
It entails listing and recording of characteristics of each individual and each living quarter as of a specified time and within a specified territory.
It was also designed to take an inventory of the total population and housing units in the country and to collect information about their characteristics.
The 2010 CPH is a nationwide undertaking of the NSO, of which it will be the 13th census of population and the sixth census of housing that will be conducted in the country since the first census was held in 1903.
The census aims to provide the government planners, policy makers, and administrators with data on which to base their social and economic development plans and programs.
Zamboanga City, which is composed of 98 villages, has a population of more than 700,000 based on the 2007 census on population conducted by the NSO.
The local government officials noted that migration contributes to the increase of population in the city. (Bong Garcia)
