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Simultaneous Census to Be Held in DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, September 27 (KCNA) -- A simultaneous census of population is to be held in the DPRK from October 1 to 15, Juche 97 (2008).
    A KCNA reporter interviewed with Kim Kon Do, a section chief of the Central Statistics Bureau, as to the census.
    Reporter: Would you tell me about the preparatory work for the 2nd simultaneous census?
    Section chief: The DPRK government has paid special attention to the preparatory work for the forthcoming successful simultaneous census.
    To begin with the government set an experimental stage and let the Central Statistics Bureau take a census of population in the township and one ri of a county selected in each province from October 1 to 15 last year.
    Meanwhile, it has established a well-organized central commanding system for the simultaneous census.
    It has already completed documents related to the simultaneous census such as the directive for census taking officials and the directive for the group chiefs and supervisors. And the questionnaire related with the census has already been distributed.
    In particular, newspapers and radios brought the importance and significance of the simultaneous census home to the inhabitants and propaganda activities have been carried on for swift and scientific census.
    Now all the people are fully ready to take part in the census without exception for the eternal prosperity of the country and the nation with a high degree of political and patriotic consciousness.
    Reporter: Tell me about the census method and investigation indexes.
    Section chief: The census will be undertaken with each family as unit by the method of census taking officials directly meeting and investigating every people under the unified command of the state.
    The index of the census includes scores of indices including demographic index, educational level, working life and indices related with the sectors of the national economy.
    Reporter: How many officials will be mobilized in the census?
    Section chief: Tens of thousands of census taking officials and supervisors will carry out the work.
    Working-level short courses for them were held in Pyongyang and local areas on several occasions.