He 2023 Census will be formally completed this Friday, when the National Institute of Statistics (INE) will present details of the closure of the in-person stage throughout the country, where the announcement of population growth in the country is not expected.
Thus, starting this Friday the 29th, house-to-house visits by census takers will end and the system will also be disabled. digital census, in which Uruguay It became the country in the region with the highest response rate to the form via the internet. In any case, for those who did not take the census or want to make inquiries, the 0800 2023 service will continue to be enabled for a few more weeks.
He INE will report during a press conference that will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the Executive Tower, the date of presentation of the preliminary results and the beginning of the National Census Evaluation Survey.
The progress of the 2023 Census in Maldonado
In the last hours, the deputy director of the INE, Federico Seguí, announced the end of the in-person census in Maldonadowhere 175,000 addresses were registered, while the director of the 2023 Census, Leonardo Cuello, He pointed out that 6,500 addresses in the rural area were registered in the department, where 30 officials worked,
The departments where the operation has also ended so far are Flores, Treinta y Tres, Tacuarembó, Florida, Durazno, Salto, Artigas, Rivera, Cerro Largo, Rocha, Lavalleja, San José, Colonia, Río Negro and Soriano.
The Uruguayan population remains “stagnant”
The president of INE, Diego Aboaltold the press that population growth is “small” in Uruguay, so the estimates from the 2011 census, which anticipated 3.5 million inhabitants currently, they would not be fulfilled.
“In 1985 we were 3 million,” explained the leader, in a vision shared by the demographer and researcher of the Population Program of the University of the Republic (Udelar), Ignacio Pardowho stated: “We expected slight population growth from 2011 to 2023. Apparently, this slight growth is going to be milder than expected.”
Source: Ambito
