The 10th Population and Housing Census that is scheduled to be held 10 to 23 November 2022 will ask people about their race. “Do you consider yourself a person who is black, brown, mestizo, mulatto, Indian, Asian, white or any other color?,” will be asked, Diario Libre reports. The race peculiarities years back had been eliminated from Dominican cedulas.
Racial self-identification is one of the 67 questions on the census ballot that has already been released by the National Statistics Office (ONE) as part of the preparations for the population census.
For the first time, the census will have questions to help determine migration and emigration. People will be asked: “During the past five years, from November 2017 to November 2022, did any person residing in this household go to live in another country?”
This question is followed by others to learn about men and women who have left the country in the last five years, the place of residence of the person’s mother, and when he or she was born. People are given the option to indicate whether it was in another municipality, province or country.
If the person answers having been born in another country, the next question is in what year the person came to live in the Dominican Republic.
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Diario Libre
19 October 2022