2 February 2022
Statistics South Africa will on Wednesday begin with what it calls Census night during which it will count people such as the homeless and those who may be away from their homes and staying at hotels, travelling or who are in hospitals.
The fourth population tally will run from February 3-28. Household registration for the country’s first digital Census began last week and will end on Friday.
Over 160 000 field workers will be deployed across the country for the 2022 Census.
In KwaZulu-Natal, Census 2022 will kick off at the Durban beachfront, among other places, where they will be counting the homeless community.
The last Census was done in 2011, and everyone in South Africa is being encouraged to participate.
According to the last Census, 40% of households in the province had access to piped water inside a dwelling and 14.1% had no access to piped water.
In the 2011 Census, KwaZulu-Natal had the third highest official unemployment rate in the country at 33 percent.
Limpopo had the highest figure at 38.9%
source SABCNews
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