Statistics Authority confirms that Iraq's 34 million population is expected to resolve the timing of 'census' after 'National Conference

Haider Ali Jawad - 09/25/2012 - 12:59 pm

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The
Central Bureau of Statistics said the number of Iraq's population of 34
million people, stressing that this figure depends on accurate data and
correct, adding that knowledge of Iraq's population can not sing about
doing conducting a census, because it is not aimed to know the number of
the population, but provides comprehensive database and wide for
education, health and employment, immigration, and even environmental
conditions surrounding housing.
For
its part, confirmed to the Committee of the Regions parliamentary and
provincial law census Ready since 2008, indicating that the leaders of
political blocs and their differences on many of the points contained in
the law is behind the disabled, and called on the Commission to speed
up finding a political consensus on it.
While
saw specialists that the census at the present time without consensus
on it, will lead to incorrect results, stressed that the lack of
acceleration commissioned will directly affect the plans المستقبيلة and
development and service needed by Iraq today, what makes those plans
devoid of feasibility, especially in light of major change
long-demographics and social Iraq.
In
an interview with "The World" on Monday, revealed Mahdi Keywords head
of the Central Bureau of Statistics, "The number of people in Iraq now
stands at 34 million, based on a study we developed based primarily on
the inventory process and punctuation that was completed at the end of
the year 2009", stressing that "These recent data have enabled us to
reach a population of Iraq in the urban and rural environments, and so
on level terms, districts and provinces."
And
whether such data sings about doing a population, Re Keywords "is known
as the general population census provides population characteristics in
detail, for education, health, immigration and housing characteristics
and environmental conditions surrounding housing," adding that "the
study that we refer to the need to facilitate a census of the population
in order to achieve its objectives. "
The
President of the Central Bureau of Statistics, said that "rhetoric and
Majazbat political is that delayed the process to initiate a census
year, because there are perceptions when a lot of the political
components, and there is controversy about some of the questions
contained in the questionnaire, as well as having problematic about how
to manage the disputed areas , and all these political decisions need to
resolve this controversy, "hoping that" for political reconciliation
scheduled direct effects in the accelerator to hold the general census
of the population. "
Iraq
has held until now 7 censuses, where that first census was in 1934 and
after, respectively, in the years 1947.1957, 1965, 1977.1987, 1997 and
was supposed to hold the census eighth in Iraq in 2007, but the
political situation convulsive The objection to the census in the
disputed areas prevented it.
For
his part, Mansour al-Tamimi, Vice Chairman of the Committee of the
Regions and the provinces parliamentary, that "many of the laws broken
in the country is because of political differences, including the law of
the census No. 40 for the year 2008," noting that "the law is ready
since the previous parliamentary session, but disruption being by the
leaders of the political blocs to not get consensus on it. "
He
Tamimi, in his interview with "the world" yesterday, that "the law
census law is very important for the process of planning and
construction, and depends on a large number of strategic projects and
economic, even important amendments to a number of laws, such as, the
election law and the law of the provincial councils and the law of oil
and gas and other laws. "
And
the most important points that are disputed in the law between the
political blocs, the Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Regions and
the provinces in the House of Representatives, said that "the issue of
Kirkuk and the field of nationalism, of the most important points
articulated in the case of the census, and these points are important
and articulated and sensitive."
He
added that the "dependency disputed areas between the provinces of
Mosul, Salahuddin and Diyala with the Kurdistan region, all of which had
delayed the enactment of the census so far," believing that "activate
the law at this stage without resolving the contentious points will
bring us back to the same problem, so the law needs to political
consensus. "
While
saw Hussein Fadel, professor of sociology at the University of Baghdad,
said that "a census at the present time if it is possible to have the
incorrect results because of political differences around", said that
"there is no census directly affects the future planning and development
development plans, this can not be controlled without a census. "
He
added, "a lot of plans that try to specialists drawn today, will not
achieve viability without the census, so the statistics very urgent
need, especially at the present time."
And
said Fadel, that "first needs to census and inventory statistical are
university professors and centers of research strategy, because most of
the studies conducted based on the census, population density because it
enters the distribution and organization", مردفا saying "There
migration back, and there transfers from the areas to other areas
changed the demographic composition of the community, and there is an
increase in births and an increase in the marriage, all of that is
required now. "
He
concluded by saying that "the census directly affects and comprehensive
on the economy, because the development plans of the state depends
entirely on the statistical side to exit a successful future plans."




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