Trinidad and Tobago’s Central Statistical Office plans to begin a pilot census on Monday, October 26, ahead of nationwide fieldwork expected next June, Guardian Media reports. The pilot is intended to reach 5,500 households in 110 districts, including six in Tobago, and test the systems and staff needed for the national exercise.
Guardian says the wider census will gather information on housing, health, employment, services and infrastructure, and seek to count migrants and people living on the streets. The pilot is preparation, rather than a new national population total. Its results cannot yet establish how many people live in the country or what the full census will find.
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