“It is impossible that 150,000 people are hidden in the forest” | EUROtoday

Eight weeks after the launch of the exhaustive inhabitants census, a sense of aid floats over the antenna of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) in Mayotte. The door-to-door marketing campaign, carried out by seven hundred municipal brokers, has been accomplished since Saturday night, January 24. The distinctive mass of paper paperwork should now be centralized, as a result of the Internet response price reaches solely 3.5% (in comparison with 70% in France).

The two further weeks granted by INSEE to 14 of the seventeen municipalities of the archipelago, together with the 2 largest, Mamoudzou and Koungou, made it potential to make up for the delays accrued after a progress report on the census deemed “worrisome”on the finish of December, linked to “various shortcomings”. For their half, the municipalities labeled as poor performers criticized the calendar utilized by INSEE and the gathering difficulties brought on by college holidays and the wet season.

The mobilization of municipal companies, ardently demanded by INSEE, has borne fruit: 97% of the 86,400 housing items recorded within the division have been recognized. “These 3% of unrecorded lodging correspond to conditions the place folks refused to reply out of mistrust, or as a result of it was unimaginable to contact them or due to their long-term absenceobserves Bertrand Kauffmann, undertaking supervisor at INSEE for the Mayotte census. This result’s higher than the nationwide common. In France, the non-response price is round 4.5%. »

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