PSA gears up for mid-decade population census

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CALASIAO, Pangasinan, June 1 (PNA) -- The Philippine Statistics Administration (PSA) office in Pangasinan, located in this town, is now preparing for the conduct of the mid-decade census of population that will start in two months.

Provincial statistics officer Dante Pescador, said PSA will soon be hiring census enumerators and supervisors for the project.

"We have been coordinating with the different barangays, through the local census boards, to inform the Barangay Captains that we will be hiring census staff from their area," he said.

Pescador said priority applicants for the census supervisors and enumerators positions are out-of-school-youth and unemployed village residents.

In Pangasinan, a total of 3,500 enumerators, supervisors, and team supervisors are needed for the census of population this 2015.

Census of population is regularly conducted every 10 years since 1980, by virtue of Batas Pambansa Bilang 750, Pescador cited.

Regular census is conducted during summer time, with teachers as enumerators and supervisors.

However, Pescador noted that since the internal revenue allotment (IRA) for each local government unit (LGU) is based on the census data on population and land area, local chief executives requested for a mid-decade census or in-between regular census years for an updated data.

For this year, the nationwide simultaneous census will start on August 8 and will last for 25 days.

After which, "The results will be proclaimed by the President in December," said Pescadof.

Asked of his projection of Pangasinan population, Pescador said the provincial population might reach almost three million this year.

The 2015 mid-decade census of population will count population as of 12:01 in the morning of August 1, 2015.

As of 2010 census data, there were 2.8 million people in Pangasinan, making the province the third most-populous province in the country.

"We are encouraging all the people to cooperate and participate in the census, because this is for us," remarked Pescador.

The data will be used primarily for planning purposes of programs for the people, he said.

He added that census data are the bases of development plans of the government.