Census 2020: Cabinet Wants Ukrainians to Count Themselves
With the help of online tools.
The Cabinet of Ministers is considering holding Ukraine's 2020 population census with the help of online tools.
This was announced by Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk on the Freedom of Speech programme on ICTV.
"We looked at various practices around the world for how a census is conducted. And now we are looking for a way to make the census as much as possible based on online tools," the head of government said. "That is, to encourage people to fill in information about themselves independently using online tools."
The prime minister also noted that, overall, Ukraine as a state currently operates on "extremely inaccurate, extremely poor-quality data."
"The margin of error is sometimes terrible, it is alarming. Sometimes we make decisions as a state simply blindly. And this needs to stop. Next year we should have a single centralized database in which we will see how many pupils and how many students we have, that is, we will understand which social categories correlate with each other and in what way, in order to plan state policy itself, to be able to make at least sensible calculations," Honcharuk said.
Ukraine's only population census since independence was held in December 2001. According to its results, the country then had 48,457,000 inhabitants.
This year the Cabinet allocated UAH 3.4 billion for the nationwide census in the 2020 state budget.
Earlier, the head of government said that the population census of Ukraine is planned for December next year, but the Cabinet is studying the possibility of holding it this year.
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