Logistical Issues Force STATS SA To Extend Census

According to Statistics SA spokesperson Trevor Oosterwyk, logistical issues crippled and delayed the initiation of this year’s campaign. Every ten years, the country’s population is counted.

Since fieldworkers are having difficulty getting door-to-door, the Census 2022 has been extended until March 20.

Workers have been attempting to collect data on all those currently living in South Africa, including foreign nationals and homeless residents, for the past three weeks.

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According to Statistics SA spokesperson Trevor Oosterwyk, logistical issues hampered and delayed the start of this year’s campaign.

Oosterwyk explained, “At this stage, we’re a lot more optimistic than we were a few days ago. It’s a lot of things that we’d anticipated to fall into place much earlier took a bit longer than what it should have – from finding sufficient numbers of cars from car rental people, insufficient numbers of field workers in the local areas where they are based.”

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It was also the first time that the census registration and survey were available online, but Oosterwyk stated that this did not produce the desired results.

He said, “The gremlins were also swimming all over the census and obviously things took a bit longer. We had to close the registration on the 21st of February. A lot of people had actually taken the opportunity to do that but others filled in the registration and agreed to do a contact and then they don’t complete the questionnaire.”