Politics
Unofficial Population Studies Underway in Addis Ababa and Sheger City
Wazema · 6 days ago · Read the Full Story on Wazema
AI SUMMARY
The Ethiopian Statistics Service is conducting unofficial door-to-door data collection and demographic studies in Addis Ababa and Sheger City, raising questions among residents while officials cite census preparation and spatial mapping.
- Experts deployed by the Federal Statistics Service have been collecting door-to-door data in Addis Ababa and Sheger City since mid-June.
- Data being gathered includes household size, age, gender, religion, education level, marital status, monthly income, and land measurements in some neighborhoods.
- No official information regarding the study has been released at either the regional or federal levels.
- Data collectors and senior leadership have provided conflicting reasons for the survey, describing it variously as a socio-economic sampling or census preparation.
- Sources close to the matter indicate the study focuses on determining population distribution, composition ratios, and future resource allocation.
- A similar ethnic-based demographic sample check was previously conducted in Sheger City a year ago by local experts.
- A senior Federal Statistics Service official stated that the current work is purely spatial preparation and mapping necessitated by corridor development, with 70 percent of the mapping work complete and expected to finish by the end of September.
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