As part of the work for the 2020 Census in the Dominican Republic, the National Statistics’ Office (ONE) has been discussing with other countries in the region about their experiences and challenges faced in developing the census. Participating in the discussions are representatives from Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
ONE director Alexandra Izquierdo says new information technologies will be used to optimize data collection, control, processing and dissemination of the data. She also said that the data would form part of the information flow used by government and society, to support political and administrative decisions that can impact millions of people.
The census will cost around RD$3 billion and is due to begin on 14 October 2020 although the mapping of the areas to be visited by the census information gatherers has already begun.
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30 May 2018
