UN gives vehicles for 2012 Census

ZIMSTAT acting director general, Moffat Nyoni, said the organisation had also managed to procure 17 vehicles at a cost of $623 900 from government.

Nyoni said the vehicles would be used during the mapping and data collection exercise, adding that 98 mappers have been employed to carry out the exercise.

“We are behind schedule. We should have finished this exercise in December this year but we expected it to go ahead until March 2012,” he said.

Preparations for Zimbabwe’s fourth national census had been dogged with a myriad of challenges, he said.

The next census is expected to reveal a large drop in population, caused by millions of people leaving the country in search of better working and living conditions since the last census in 2002.