The National Statistics Bureau said the priority of the third
one-percent national sample census will be to measure the migrant
population, newborns and the deceased, according to a Xinhua News
Agency report today.
Zhang Weimin, deputy director of the bureau and member of the
leading group in charge of the sample census, said data collection
will take place in every household of selected residential
quarters.
China has so far carried out five national censuses in the past
56 years since 1949. The government started sample censuses, which
sample one percent of the population, in the 1980s.
The census, the third of its kind, will cover 90,000 residential
quarters in 2,800 counties, cities and districts of the country's
31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
Data collection will start on November 1 and data processing
from November 16.
The sample census, announced by the State Council on October 19,
will sample over 13 million people.
(Xinhua News Agency November 1, 2005)