Planning Minister : This year, we will carry out Housing and General Population Census

INA-  Baghdad


Mohammed Ali Tamim, the minister of planning, reaffirmed on Wednesday that the ministry is moving forward with plans to conduct the general housing and population census this year.

"Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Planning Mohammed Ali Tamim, presided over the first meeting of the opinion body in the ministry for this year, in which he checked the government's perspectives for the current year on the investment plan for ministerial and regional development projects," read a statement from the ministry that the Iraqi News Agency (INA) obtained.

The statement went on to say that "the administrative undersecretary of the ministry and the head of the statistics and geographic information authority reviewed the steps and procedures for the implementation of the census," adding that "the priority will be for ongoing projects, and the fulfillment of all financial obligations of the spending units, before entering into new financial obligations through the inclusion of new projects."

The statement further said that "the opinion body meeting witnessed the adoption of decisions, recommendations, and necessary actions on a number of issues and topics on the agenda, including the discussion of the link between the Information Technology Department and the statistics and geographic information systems authority,