Thursday, August 13, 2015

POPULATION CENSUS 2015 “Magpabilang,Magpacensus!”

The Philippine Statistic Authority will be conducting the 2015 Census of Population all over the country pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 1031 declaring “August 2015 as the National Census Month”.

The team  composed of three (3) Census Area Supervisor, sixty four (64) Enumerators and seventeen (17) Team supervisors. he team was divided into two who attended 4th level of training held at the Municipal Gymnasium from July 27-31 and August 3-8, 2015. 



Census of Population 2015 is a complete enumeration of households in the country. It is designed to take an inventory of the population of the entire Philippines. It  will be the 14th  census of population to be undertaken in the country since the first census in 1903.

POPCEN 2015 aims to provide government executives, policy and decision makers, and planners with population data, especially updated population counts of all barangays in the country, on which to base their social and economic development plans, policies, and programs. (Lifted from the Philippine Statistics Authority Documents).

Every respondent is expected to cooperate and give truthful data to the enumerators. Any individual who refuses or fails to give truthful and complete answers to statistical inquiries shall be imposed a penalty of one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of one hundred thousand pesos (100,000.000).

  


Vilma Lapuz-Abalos
Mun. Population officer-Designate


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