” Minister terms digital census ‘strategic resource’ ” | GNN INFO

Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Friday said the data collected through the 7th Population and Housing Census-2023 was a strategic resource for the ‘data-driven policy making’.

Iqbal, during his visit to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), anticipated that it was time to get the benefits from the digital census.

The minister announced to conduct the First Data Fest in Pakistan in 2024, which would be a great step towards extending the benefits of data and bridging the gap between data producers and users as it will inform the government and private sectors, academia, business communities how to get benefit from the data.

Chief Statistician Dr Naeem-uz-Zafar informed the minister that the PBS has taken initiative to adopt ‘Three-in-One’ approach to implement the “integrated digital count” strategy, i.e., integration of agriculture, mouza and agricultural machinery counts into one census, i.e., te 7th Agricultural Census (Integrated and Digital count).

Moreover, the PBS is going to launch the results of the 7th Population and Housing Census after which the First Data Festival will be conducted.

The PBS has completed re-basing of the national accounts that is a great step towards improving GDP.

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