The Government - which cites a press release from the National Institute of Statistics in a statement to which VerAngola had access - clarifies that the collection of information will be carried out through tablets with the data collection application - CAPI.
"The collection of information will be carried out by tablets with a data collection application - CAPI, resulting from the ongoing mapping update until the end of 2023, says a press release from the National Institute of Statistics (INE)", reads the statement of the Government, which VerAngola had access to.
The note also reports that INE "should prepare the technical conditions" of the census process to be carried out throughout the country, "covering national and foreign citizens resident or temporarily absent, as well as accommodation units".
To this end, the President, João Lourenço, created a Multisectoral Commission to Support the 2024 Census, which is coordinated by the Minister of State and Head of the Military House of the President of the Republic, Francisco Furtado, assisted by the Ministry of Economy and Planning, the INE and different ministerial departments, according to the statement.
The Census will comprise three main stages until the end of "effective data collection".
The first phase concerns the "cartographic update that consists of defining and redefining the boundaries of the neighbourhoods", and will involve cartographers, IT specialists and drivers "throughout the national geography". Here, the division of the country into around 92 thousand sections is foreseen "for the purposes of interviews with households".
The second phase concerns the "pilot census and will serve to test the readiness process for carrying out the Census in 2024", advances the statement, which adds that the general census is expected to take place in the third and final stage, "which will cover population and housing".
Data from the 2014 Census
In the first General Population and Housing Census, carried out almost 10 years ago (in 2014), a total of 25,789,024 inhabitants was calculated, of which 63 percent lived in the urban area and 37 percent in the rural area.
The statement also mentions that the country's population is mostly made up of women (13,289,983), representing 52 percent of the total, while the male is 12,499,041 (48 percent).
Luanda is the most populous, with 6,945,386 inhabitants, corresponding to more than a quarter of the country's population. Also noteworthy are the provinces of Huíla, Benguela and Huambo, with 2,497,422, 2,231,385 and 2,019,555 inhabitants, respectively.
