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KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 6.4 million households have responded and completed their details in the Malaysia Population and Housing Census 2020 online using the electronic census as of December 6, Dewan Rakyat was told.
Minister of the Prime Minister’s Department (Economic Affairs) Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed (pix) said they made up 19.7 percent of Malaysia’s estimated 32.7 million population.
“We have 13 more days before the online phase of the census ends and we hope that the goal of 30 percent of the population using the electronic census will be achieved by the end of this year,” he said today during question time.
Mustapa said this in response to Wong Shu Qi (DAP-Kluang) who wanted to know the number of households and the percentage that have completed their details in the electronic census so far and the percentage of the online census targeted by the Department of Statistics. achieve.
He said the 2020 Census is being rolled out in two phases, the first initially scheduled for July 7 to September 30, and the second scheduled for October 7 to 24, 2020.
However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the first phase of the census, which is the online phase, has been extended until December 21, and the second phase, which is face-to-face, was rescheduled to begin starting January 20. to February 6, 2021.
Meanwhile, he said the ministry was in the midst of implementing various programs to increase response for the online phase, especially in Sabah, which had recorded the lowest response so far at 6.7 percent.
“A virtual total of 1,700 census clinics, e-Census Hour and e-Census Day have also been held to increase response,” he added. – Called
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