Demographic data published after 1.5 year since the census ended

Till the end of March, the demographic data got during the last census of population in October 2004 will be published. The head of the Population Census Department within the National Bureau of Statistic of Moldova, Maria Strajescu, announced that the data were generalised already, and at the moment it is prepared the report, which will be made public till the end of this month. According to her, the census is a very difficult process, which needs human involvement, finances and a huge work made by the employees of the Statistic. According to the plan, the data had to be published till the end of February. The moving of the Statistic Bureau of the headquarters of Soseaua Hancesti on the street Grenobl motivated the delay, she noted. Previously, the persons responsible of the Statistic Bureau said that the population census in Moldova is monitored by a mission of six experts of the Council of Europe and a group of 30 observers of over 20 countries. In order to organise the census, there were allocated 27 million lei of the state budget, half of them were compensated by the governments of Sweden and Great Britain. When the census was started, president Vladimir Voronin said, “organising the census is not a political action. When we have the data we will be able to save if we have enough or not doctors, to which extent we do not have running water, where and how many teachers and higher education schools we need, where we have to build first of all roads and gas pipes, and many other things." RM government shall organise a census of the population in 2002, but gave up this idea because of money lack. According to international norms, population census is organised once in10 years. In Moldova the last census was organised in soviet times, in 1989. Then the total number of the population was 4,335 million inhabitants. 17% of them (about 700,000) were living on the left of Dniestre. In 2004, the census was possible to organise only due to the insistence of international bodies.