Rights activists say the new process should be made as accessible as possible to include previously excluded or undercounted groups such as transgender people
Lahore — Father-of-two Muhammad Saqib excitedly types his family’s details on a laptop in his Lahore office — the first time fast-growing Pakistan is counting its population digitally.
Electoral seats in Pakistan’s parliament as well as funding for basic services such as schools and hospitals are assigned using population density data. Previous exercises have been marred by allegations of miscount and exclusion of some groups. “Since people were not counted where they lived, but at their de jure position or the permanent address their identity cards showed, it resulted in an undercount where they consumed resources and an over-reporting where they didn’t,” Khan said.
“For one month, 126,000 enumerators wearing green jackets will count every person across Pakistan, border or interior, through secured tablets,” the minister said. Provinces would automatically get disaggregated information on gender, employment and migration, among other indicators, said chief PBS statistician Naeem-uz-Zafar.
“Digitisation makes the process more transparent, so it should not lead to more issues or such fragmentation as seen after the 2017 census,” said Harris Khalique, secretary-general of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
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