The Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency (CSA) has said that preparations have been finalized to undertake Ethiopia's first ever digital technology-assisted national population and housing census. The East African country will embrace Chinese technologies during the upcoming Fourth National Population and Housing Census, which is scheduled to take place from April 7 to 28, according to the CSA. The CSA had previously revealed the purchase of close to 180,000 tablets from Chinese technology giants, Huawei and Lenovo, to effectively conduct the population and housing census, which is held about every 10 year. The census will be conducted using five local languages namely Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Tigrigna, and Somali. The application of digital mobile technology is also said to be a positive impetus so as to incorporate different aspects of communities, including the use of five languages for data registration purpose unlike the previous proceeding.

Source: Ethiopian News February 20, 2019 16:07 UTC