Second block of population census to begin on March 31

The house listing operations will also start on Friday

ISLAMABAD: The second block under the first phase of the sixth population and household census will begin on March 31st, Radio Pakistan reported on Wednesday.

During this stage, 6,445 blocks of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), 125 of the federally administered tribal areas (Fata), 20,188 of Punjab, 9,081 of Sindh and 2,814 of Balochistan will be covered.



Moreover, 1,222 blocks of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and 360 of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) will also be surveyed during the phase, which concludes on April 13.

The report added that a three-day house listing operation will also start on Friday.

A control room has already been established in Islamabad by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) and the general public has been advised to direct any complaints or queries to 0800-57574.

PBS, while making arrangements for the census, which started on March 15, had announced that it would be held in two phases.



The first phase would be completed in mid-April, while the second phase would be run from April 24 to mid-May. Preliminary results of the national population census would start arriving in June and would be publicised accordingly, it had said.

The PBS divided the country’s population into 168,120 blocks, each consisting of 200 to 250 households. More than 84,000 enumerators would be involved in the nationwide exercise, it continued.

For the first time, transgender people will be counted separately in the entire census process, according to the community representatives in Pakistan. The census will also provide an insight into the true numbers of religious minorities, especially Christians and Hindus.