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Sunday, 25 April 2004 |
 Tunis, 19 April 2004 (Tunisiaonline)
A new national census to be undertaken starting April 28, will allow Tunisia to update its statistics on the country’s population and households.
The last census took place in 1994. The Tunisian population was then 8.7 million. It is estimated today at about 10 million. Thanks to the country’s family planning program, Tunisia’s demographic growth rate has shot down to less than 1 percent.
More than 14,000 trained employees will take part in the collection and processing aspects of the 2004 census operation, scheduled from April 28 to May 25, 2004.
By virtue of a law adopted in 1999, the information collected will be confidential and could not be used for any other purposes but those of the census.
Source:
Tunisia Online News Updates
http://www.tunisiaonline.com/news/news.html
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