Students, former surveyors, but also pensioners will knock on every house from September 18 for the registration of citizens and residences.
About 7,500 people will be committed for a period of 6 weeks to complete the registration of population data, no longer on paper but on tablets, as indicated in an interview for "A2", director of INSTAT, Elsa Dhuli.
"Currently this week we are training the survey staff which will last 5 days." It is a large team which on September 18 will go out to the entire territory of Albania to enable the successful collection of information about buildings, apartments, families, individuals to provide necessary information", says the director of INSTAT Elsa Dhuli .
The census, which comes after 12 years, will contain about 100 categories of questions about housing, family, residence and employment. While in the village, they will also be asked about their engagement in agriculture and animal husbandry. For most questions, answers are mandatory.
"On the demographic characteristics of the population, residents, on living and housing conditions. They will serve all users and policy makers. Exceptions are made by religion, ethnicity and belief", adds Dhuli.
A fine of 50,000 to 100,000 ALL will be applied to citizens who refuse to answer or do not provide accurate data according to Article 21 of the Law on Population and Housing Census.
"The surveyors are being trained to visit the house up to 3 times. That is, if they are not at home, the surveyor will leave an informative letter and phone number, or I will give them the address of the census office."
The data collected during the survey will be automatically transferred to the INSTAT server, while the entire process will cost 16 million euros. The first results will be given at the end of June 2024.