Taken from Diario Libre
SANTO DOMINGO –With two days remaining before the conclusion of the Tenth Population and Housing Census, there are still residential areas and entire streets in Santo Domingo Oeste (SDO) and the western part of the National District that have not yet been visited by a census taker. In these areas, staff who received tablets on Friday lack the labels to mark the houses.
The National Statistics Office (ONE) confirmed that the municipality of Santo Domingo Oeste (SDO) has the greatest backlog, which is why they are "addressing the reinforcement with other enumerators who have been finishing their workloads.".
In the Don Honorio residential complex, several residents stated that their buildings had not been included in the census at all. Progress was greater in the El Condado and Doña Carmen complexes. A census taker from Doña Carmen confirmed that she was finishing the last two interviews she needed to conduct yesterday.
On Abreu Street in the San Miguel neighborhood of Manoguayabo, as of yesterday morning, the homes on one side of the street had been registered, but the other side remained unregistered. Two census takers from Colina Street revealed that some of their colleagues received tablets to begin their work on Friday.
The pollsters were marking the houses with white chalk temporarily because the roll of labels had run out.
They said that Haitian immigrants in the area refuse to open their doors to them. One Haitian woman spat on one of them and threw a lit match at her.
Technical shutdown in 26 provinces
The National Statistics Office (ONE) reported that after 19 days of field operations for the Census, data collection work has been completed in 26 provinces, "with very few segments remaining to be closed.".
“In general terms, we are beginning the technical closure phase. To this end, the ONE maintains close coordination with the regional and provincial managers, with whom we are working on the technical closure process,” says bulletin number 12 published this Monday by the institution.
According to the bulletin, the provinces that are still carrying out data collection work are: Santo Domingo, Santiago and La Altagracia, which were projected to close on November 30, 2022.
