Results of Moldova's population census to be published by late 2016

Chisinau, 19 October /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet today chaired a meeting of the national commission for the 2014 population and housing census. The commission members considered the activities carried out so far and the next stages, in order to complete the procedures of processing the census questionnaires and subsequently publish the data, the government's communication and media relations department has reported. 

Valeriu Strelet said the population and housing census was a mission of national importance, as the findings of this exercise served as a basis for the necessary evaluations to plan and work out the policies in all the social and economic spheres.  The prime minister asked the competent institutions to speed up the implementation of the legal provisions in this context, as well as to ensure the adjusting of the appropriate financial estimations. 

The representatives of the development partners who attended the meeting welcomed the prime minister's intention to accelerate the process of giving the final touches to all the census-related procedures, stressing willingness to pay the needed attention and expertise to this end.

The members of the aforementioned commission also today approved an updated schedule of the actions for processing the information got within the first stage of the population and housing census from 2014. Under the document, by late 2016, all the date are to be systematized and processed, and the results of the census - published.

(Editor M. Jantovan)