{"id":11716,"date":"2019-03-03T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2019-03-03T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T07:07:51","slug":"cambodia-launches-general-population-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11716","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia Launches General Population Census"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Mar 3 (NNN-AKP) &#8211; Cambodia launched the third general population census on Sunday (today), said Hang Lina, director general of the National Institute of Statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The census started at 7:00 am today (Mar 3) and will run until Mar 13 at 5:00 p.m.,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 50,000 census staff have been deployed to collect the demographic, social and economic statistics, including births, deaths, migration, education and employment status among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The census data is very important for the country to plan and to make policies,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It will also work as an indicator to monitor and check the work carried out under the national strategic development plan and the sustainable development goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is estimated that the South-east Asian nation has nearly three million households, with a population of about 16.2 million, she said, adding that, the census&#8217; preliminary result will be released in Jun, before the official result to be publicised at the end of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Lina, the 11-day census is to cost 8.5 million U.S. dollars, which is the government&#8217;s own budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that, the Chinese government also donated cars, motorbikes, desktop computers and other equipment worth about 2.5 million dollars for the census work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cambodia conducted a general population census once a decade. The 2008 population census found that the country&#8217;s population was 13.4 million, up from 11.4 million in 1998.&#8211; NNN-AKP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Mar 3 (NNN-AKP) &#8211; Cambodia launched the third general population census on Sunday (today), said Hang Lina, director general of the National Institute of Statistics. &#8220;The census started at 7:00 am today (Mar 3) and will run until Mar 13 at 5:00 p.m.,&#8221; she said. About 50,000 census staff have been deployed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}