Nationwide population and housing census to launch January 9

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. By law, Mongolia conducts a population and housing census once every 10 years for the complete count of the entire population of Mongolia, with the next one is beginning nationwide at 8 AM, January 9 to continue until January 15. A.Ariunzaya, Chairwoman of the National Statistical Office of Mongolia, which is carrying out the population and housing census, combining register-based and traditional methods said that starting in the morning of January 9, randomly-chosen households will be asked to complete census questionnaire with all sorts of personal questions, to gather population and housing as well as economic, social and other data from 10 percent of the whole population of Mongolia, which is currently estimated at around 3.3 million. Apart from the population and housing statistics, the census also seeks to provide a comprehensive database, including household lifestyle, size and composition, living conditions, state of household education and employment, access to electricity, water and other basic services, and religion, etc. She further said the data processing phase continues around five to six months and the result of the nationwide census of population and housing will be introduced earlier in June 2020. The population census is led by Prime Minister of Mongolia. Since its first population census in 1918, Mongolia held its regular censuses in 1935, 1944, 1956, 1963, 1969, 1979, 1989 and 2000 and 2010 and the first midterm census of population and housing was in 2015. The nationwide population and housing census in 2010 counted 2 million 756 thousand and 685 people and around 4.7 percent of them were living abroad. The 2010 census also conducted housing census, which had not been done since 1969, added Ms. A.Ariunzaya.