Morocco launches general population, housing census Monday

Morocco will launch its general census of population and housing on Monday, the High Planning Commissioner said Friday.

After the training of 110 central supervisors, 900 communal ones and 2,400 trainers-controllers, 50,500 controllers will be trained between September 16 and 20, the same source said.

The operation will cost US$ 60 millions, including 70% to pay salaries of the personnel, who will go across the country to record demographic, economic and social data on each Moroccan family.

The general census had been announced by Moroccan king Mohammed VI in a letter sent to Prime Minister Driss Jettou, in which he urged for the mobilization of the government and the citizens to guarantee the success of the operation.

In his letter, the sovereign insisted on the importance of this census which he said, "also stems from all the benefit that we can draw from the optimal exploitation of its results to enlighten and orientate the reforms and the policies we are conducting in the different development fields, whether concerning education, health, employment, housing, urbanism or rural development policies."