DEPUTY Minister in the Presidency, Thembi Siweya, has called on citizens and all who live in the country to participate in Census 2022 set to start from 3 to 28 February 2022.
Siweya said this is to enable government to plan for the long term.
“I am pleased that we can now have fresh data to help us with policy formulation and evidence-based decision making. Conducting a census is key as it is the only source of small area data.”
The Deputy Minister was speaking at a media launch of Census 2022 held at Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) head office in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Siweya who urged all social partners to get behind the Census 2022 project, was pleased with the state of readiness for the census when she visited the statistical agency’s head office in Salvokop.
This as Stats SA is finalising the training of field staff and
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