Census reaches halfway

 “According to the reports, there have been counted 525200 residences or 52% of the total”, says Vjollca Simoni, Spokesperson of the Census.

INSTAT says that the problems that showed up on terrain have been immediately solved without damaging the progress of the Census that ends in October 21st.

The interviewers have no right to verify the citizens’ declarations by asking documents such as the passports or identity cards.

The INSTAT director, Ines Nurja, explains that the citizens’ declaration is free and everything is written as the citizens declare.

“It is a free declaration that cannot be made through documents. The interviewers have no right to demand identification documents. The interviewers only have to explain the questions and must not put in doubt the answers given by the citizens”, Nurja declared.

As for the fake declarations, Nurja explained that this belongs to another phase after of the data recorded on terrain. By excluding all human errors, the intentional declarations will be sanctioned, but Nurja believes that there will be no need for this.

Besides the sanctions, INSTAT has not specified yet how they will act in cases when the citizens might have made fake declarations not only about matters that belong to religion and ethnicity. According to the specialists, this belongs to a third phase. She also underlined that there will be no return for taking specific data from the citizens. When put into question, these declarations will be simply excluded from the final results that will be announced by INSTAT for this Census.

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