16 Jul 2010

TIMOR-LESTE / CENSUS 2010

Over 4,000 census staff start collecting vital data during Timor-Leste’s second national census launched on 11 July. According to UN Population Fund, the country’s mountainous topography and hard to reach rural areas will pose a challenge for collecting data. UNMIT

Posted at: July 16, 2010 4:00 pm

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STORY: TIMOR-LESTE / CENSUS 2010
TRT: 1.54
SOURCE: UNMIT
RESTRICTIONS: NONE 
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 12 JULY 2010, DILI, TIMOR-LESTE

SHOTLIST:

12 JULY 2010, DILI, TIMOR-LESTE

1. Tilt down, from sky to Ministry of Finance Office
2. Wide shot, Census Staff walking
3. Various shots, checking through GPS, and putting census sticker on door. 
4. Wide shot, census staff survey in hotel 
6. Wide shot, census staff surveying community at night 
7. Wide shot, Census Staff at the SRSG house
8. Wide shot, census staff working and collecting data from the community
9. Various shots, census staff survey the President and Prime Minister's houses and hanging Census Sticker in their residents
10. Wide shot, city from top
11. Wide shot, fixing roads
12.  Wide shot, Australian International Stabilization Force helicopter give support to census staff to travel around Timor-Leste to collect Census data from border district through helicopters

STORYLINE:

With financial support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Timor-Leste this week launched the second national census since independence in 2002.

Among the first to be counted were President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. Census workers met them at their in the capital, Dili.

Over the next two weeks, 4,000 census staff will be working across the country with maps and GPS to make sure that everyone in this largely rural nation is counted.

With un-seasonal rains making some roads impassable, the Australian International Stabilization Force (ISF) gave the support of one of their helicopters to help deliver census questionnaires to one of the border districts.

The data collected during the 2010 census will help the government update the country's demographics to facilitate better planning for the future. It will also help ascertain what progress has been made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and what still needs to be done.

The first census in 2004 showed that Timor-Leste had a total population 923, 198. Given the high birth rate, the anticipated population growth of approximately 3.2 per cent, it is estimated that today's population exceeds 1.1 million people.

The national census is being conducted by the Directorate of Statistics, under the Ministry of Finance, with technical and financial support from the United Nations Fund for Population (UNFPA).