2017-18 Population Census round

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Today is Census day here in Chile (after the 2012 Census fiasco), a national holiday. There are 580k people approx in the street asking the questions (including my sister). Good day actually.

You can check the questionnarie here (in english) http://www.censo2017.cl/cuestionario-oficial-censo-2017-version-ingles/

There are questionnaries in spanish, mapudungun, english, french, german, portuguese and creole.

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Some pictures

Bachelet contributing to the process in Renca, a working class commune in northern Santiago




A family interviewed by the President




Army personnel helping the census in isolated parts of the south


In Quilicura (also in northern Santiago) where is a notorious Haitian community, censistas discovered unaccounted houses where migrants live in a precarious situation. This census is key to solve these problems (and punish the landlords that take advantage of this)




There are some problems registered in the south, where some Mapuche communities rejected and attacked the census people. The governor of the zone confirmed that they are not going to be interviewed to avoid major problems

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Preliminary results from the chilean census are going to be released on thursday, although the INE (National Institute of Statistics) released last week natality/mortality data from 2015.

There were 244,670 births in 2015, down from 250,670 in 2014 (-2.5%). The fertility rate is 1.79.

There were 233,434 births from chilean-born mother, down from 243,211 in 2014(-4.0%) and 11,236 from foreign-born mother up from 7,786 in 2014 (+44.3%).