As the census progresses, the National Statistics Institute, Eurostat, European Union’s statistics office, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE, United Nation’s statistics arm) come up with new pieces of information, one of the most important of which is that revealing one’s numerical personal code (as the national identification number is called in Romania) to the census worker is not mandatory.
The UN statistics arm, whose point of view the National Statistics Institute conveyed, says the questions about disabilities, which are not mandatory to answer, can provide valuable information about the people with disabilities in a country and the regional and local distribution of such disabilities.
This is what Silvia Pisica, head of the Labor Market Statistics Department of the National Statistics Institute, says too, explaining that authorities can take steps when a specific type of disability affects a large part of the population or a particular area.
Recording of statistical data was higher than the national average (26.04%) in 27 counties in the third day of the census.
A high data collection rate was seen in Covasna, 31.31% of the homes estimated, Valcea (southern Romania), and Prahova (southern Romania) 30.1%.
Bucharest, Ilfov (southern Romania) and Constanta (SE Romania) saw a slower data collection rate of 18.1%, 21.3% and 21.4%.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)