Beijing: China on Sunday started the world’s biggest exercise of population count, conducted once in a decade, to document demographic changes in the most populous country.
About seven million census takers began door-to-door survey for the seventh census in the country to account for China’s population stated to be 1.37 billion in the last census exercise ten years ago.
Carrying out the census is critical to understand the population size, structure and distribution, Ning Jizhe, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, said during a video conference to promote the national census.
The census collects data, including name, ID number, gender, marital status, education, and profession of Chinese citizens, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
China has been conducting a national population census every 10 years since the 1990s. The exercise was…