Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Japan to donate 5 mln USD for Cambodia to hold national census

November 29, 2006

Japan Development Agency (JICA) will donate five million U.S. dollars for Cambodia to organize its national census from 2008 to 2010, local media reported Wednesday.

"The donation will upgrade the processing of national census and national statistics of demography of Cambodia," said Chhay Than, Minister of Planning, who signed the agreement with Mitsuko Kumagai, head of JICA, here on Tuesday.

These statistics are very important for the economic development of the country, he added.

Sorn Sithon, director general of the National Institute of Statistics, told reporters that JICA will first finance two million U.S. dollars in April 2007 and the rest of the donation will later be used to construct an office building for the institute.

For the national census in 2008, Cambodia plans to spend about six million U.S. dollars. Included are one million dollars funded by the government and other partners.

Cambodia started to hold national census in 1962. According its last national census in 1998, the kingdom had 11,437,656 people in all.

Source: Xinhua

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can do it for free.

70% chinese
29% vietnames
1% Cambodian

Anonymous said...

Japan should involve in the drafting of a new census.

We want to know the number of illegal immigrat the CPP have brough in from the neighbouring countries particularly vietnam.

I want to know Cambodia poupulation in 1993 stated at app 11 millions now 14 millions that is a 21% (3 millions) increased in a short time.

I want to know GDP versus unemployment rate.

If Japan manage the project and perform the censes then we gurantee the census is true but if Cambodia does it it fault, corruption figure manipulation is expected.