On April 30, 2013, at 15:00, at the Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GEOSTAT) and the United Nations Population Fund Country Office in Georgia (UNFPA) held donors’ conference regarding the Population Census 2014. The aim of the conference was to mobilize and coordinate donors’ assistance to the 2014 Population Census. The conference will be attended by the representatives of the Diplomatic Missions, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and UN Agencies.
On April 2, 2013, the Government Commission for Coordination of Population Census, on its first session, approved the 2014 Georgian Population Census Programme and announced the date - November 5-19, 2014.
As a UN member state, Georgia is involved in the 2010 round of censuses of the world population and the decision to undertake the 2010 round census was based on the United Nations’ recommendation to its member states to conduct the Population Census between 2005-2014.
Based on its mandate, the United Nations Population Fund supports implementation of population and housing censuses in many countries across s the globe. In Georgia UNFPA supported Population Census in 2002 and continues to provide financial and technical support for 2014 Census. The upcoming donors’ conference, a joint event organized by the National Statistics Office in Georgia and UNFPA, is a significant step forward to mobilize and coordinate the donors’ assistance for 2014 Population Census.
Preparatory work to be conducted by GEOSTAT in 2013 comprises preliminary listing of the dwellings and their residents for determining the number of households and population in each building; around 4 thousand people will be engaged in the first stage of fieldwork.
Upon completion of the preparatory work, the second, most important stage of the fieldwork – the enumeration of population will be conducted on November 5-19, 2014. With this purpose, approximately 15 thousand persons will be selected and trained to interview the population using specially designed questionnaires.
For maximizing the efficiency of available financial and human resources, the Government Commission decided to conduct agricultural census simultaneously with the population census. Thus, along with the socio-demographic data, information about households’ agricultural activities will also be generated.
