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Census Report: 99 Percent of Lima, Peru's People Polled 100 Percent Polled in Other Regions

(LIP-ir) -- Renán Quispe, Chief of Peru's National Statistics Institute (INEI) announced yesterday that the 2007 Census of Population and Dwellings had covered 99 percent of the people living in Lima and 100 percent of the majority of Peru's regions.

Peru's INEI Chief happily recognized the hard work and dedication many sectors and institutions demonstrated during Peru's XI Census of Population and VI Dwelling Census.

Quispe especially acknowledged the hard work of the 580 thousand census officials which helped in carrying out the task nationwide.

In addition, the cooperation of all of Peru's people, in a census labeled "bold but effective", was applauded and greatly appreciated.

Peru's INEI Chief held a press conference yesterday afternoon in which he totaled the final results of the national census by contacting regional census authorities across the country by radio and requesting a report of the work that had been done.

Census authorities in Arequipa reported that 100 percent of the region had been polled by 5:45 p.m. Authorities in Piura reported that 100 percent of the region's urban area had been covered. In Tumbes, census officials also reported that 100 percent of the people had been polled.

Authorities in La Libertad, Peru reported that volunteers had finished by 6:30 p.m. and that 100 percent of the region's urban area had been polled. Because of heavy rain, a complete report from Cajamarca could not be acquired. 10 districts in Cajamarca could not be contacted because of difficult weather conditions.

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# americorps says :
22 October, 2007 [ 07:45 ]

hahahha, liar.

# mark priester says :
22 October, 2007 [ 07:49 ]

WONDER HOW LONG IT TAKES TO GET SOME RESULTS POSTED?

# Juan Bautizo Huamani says :
22 October, 2007 [ 08:51 ]

gee wiz Allan,, no one came to my area yesterday to take the censo,, 

# sprocirema says :
22 October, 2007 [ 10:11 ]

I have got to question the credibility of the 100 percent figures.   I personally know of 6 family "units" with a total of 13 people that were not polled.  They all waited all day and nobody ever came.  They live in different areas, and were all missed.  Makes you wonder how accurate the figures really will be. 

Were gringos not supposed to be counted?  They came to my house!

# Redneck says :
22 October, 2007 [ 17:31 ]

Nothing is ever 100%, they are making themselves look foolish with that type of statement.   I am 100% sure of that!

I think the results should be very helpful in making planning decisions for Peru going forward and should be widely published, I am glad they did it.

# KD says :
22 October, 2007 [ 20:37 ]

We waited in all day sitting in the sunshine and watched in amazement as a group of about 8 volunteers with their clipboards and census papers attached walked right past the front door.
How can it be 100%??
What about the people who chose to not open their front door and what about those people who ignored the instruction to stay at home, as there were people out and about from 9.00am onwards.
KD

# Jet says :
23 October, 2007 [ 00:14 ]

I think the confussion lays at the hands of interpretation by news agencies and reportes of official news releases.  Reports of 100% coverage refers to population areas or geographical areas. Not to individual citizens. 

Each poll reporting area would report back when 100% OF THE REGION had been completed.  That doesn't mean 100% of the people living in that region.
As long as the pollsters were covering areas or neighboorhoods that are representative of the general populous and cross sections of the city or region that is being polled, then you can state that the poll in the REGION had been 100% completed.
Only in a police state would a "100% of the population" type poll be possible. It would have to include being able to break into homes etc.... And even then, what if someone was hiding?  So it should be obvious that when they say a regional poll is 100% complete that they are not implying that 100% of the people that live there have been polled.

# sblimaperu says :
23 October, 2007 [ 02:26 ]

What a relaxing day it was.....

A young girl arrived at my door in the morning, and I informed her that I was not a citizen and that there must be another form for me.  She looked at the form, looked at me, and then said (in Spanish of course), "I need to check with my supervisor.  I'll return in a little bit".   She never came back.  There were two people in my building that didn't get the Scarlett Sticker.  Myself and the coach of one of the football teams here that lives in my building who I think is from Brazil. 

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