Statistics gathered from the Census of Economic Activities 2019 indicate that there has been an increase in economic activity between the period 2016 and 2017. The National Statistical Office (NSO) conducted the first ever Census of Economic Activities (CEA) from November 2018 to April 2019 whose primary source of information were businesses operating in Malawi. […]
National Statistical Office (NSO) says official results of the 2018 population and housing census is expected to be released in early June. NSO spokesperson Kingsley Manda said the official results could not be released in April due to what he described as logistical problems as well as the elections. “The final official results of the […]
National Statistical Office (NSO) is set to release the results of the housing and population census. NSO spokesperson Kingsley Manda said the release of the results will be done at NSO offices in Zomba and would help the government plan for social and economic policies for the people. It is expected that the population will […]
Human Rights Defenders have told the National Statistics Office (NSO) to pay some enumerators and census supervisors, months after the population and housing census was completed. Human Rights Defenders chairperson Timothy Mtambo said it was wrong for NSO to hire the enumerators and the supervisors for the census and fail to pay them. “We are […]
National Statistical Office (NSO) says it will use the police to recover all data tablets enumerators used during the population and housing census. This comes amid reports that some of them have declared that they will not hand them back to NSO after the census ended on Sunday in most parts of the country. NSO […]
National Statistics Office (NSO) has extended the population and housing census in some areas whose people could not be reached for the exercise. NSO commissioner Mercy Kanyuka said some areas were hard to reach whilst some people were not in their homes when the enumerators visited them but played down fears that this would have […]
The international community in the country and the National Statistical Office (NSO) have applauded Mangochi District Council for smooth progress of the Population and Housing Census (HPC) currently under way. German Ambassador Juergen Borsch, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) assistant representative Dorothy Nyasulu and NSO commissioner Mercy Kanyuka said they are impressed with the commitment […]
Malawi Police in Ntcheu are hunting for thieves who broke into a Rest House room and stole two phone tablets and three power banks for the National Statistics Office (NSO) to be used by two Population and Housing Census (PHC) supervisors. Police spokesperson in Ntcheu Hastings Chigaru said two enumerators for the ongoing population and […]
Population and Housing census has delayed in Mangochi because of delays to dispatch equipment and enumerators demand to have their allowances paid before the work. Some of the enumerators said they were only paid K20 000 out of the K100 000 training allowances and were also demanding upfront field allowances, saying most of them were […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has ruled out the population and census which has started on Monday across the country, will affect the ongoing voter registration exercise. Malawians in some parts of the country will now have to undergo two crucial exercises, the population and census and voter registration currently in phase five in […]
Officials from the National Statistics Office (NSO) will on Monday start to count each and every Malawian in a national census and population amid threats from enumerators that they would sabotage the process. In Kasungu, the enumerators say they have just been paid K20, 000 out of the agreed K120,000 for the week long training, […]
The National Statistics Office (NSO) has asked the general public not to miss out in the forthcoming 2018 Population and Housing Census as it is the right to be counted. Commissioner of Statistics at NSO Mercy Kanyuka made the call Friday in Lilongwe on the sidelines of handover ceremony of equipment for the census from […]
National Statistics Office (NSO) says it has a deficit of K1.6 billion for payments of enumerators for the September population and housing census. Spokesperson for NSO Kingsley Manda said the organization is now looking up to the government for a bail out. He said donors pledged to pump in the money out of the K6.4 […]
National Statistics Office (NSO) on Tuesday said they have finalised preparations for the 2018 Population and Housing Census. NSO’s Assistant Commissioner Lizzie Chikoti said equipment for the whole exercise has already been procured which include tablets. In this year’s census, enumerators will use these tablets to generate and record data instead of the traditional paper-based […]
The Zomba-based National Statistical Office (NSO) will release the 2018 Population and Housing Census (PHC) preliminary report by December three months after data collection while the final report would be ready by April, 2019, Commissioner for Statistics, Mercy Kanyuka has said. Kanyuka made the disclosure at Chilema Ecumenical Training Centre in Zomba, on Monday at […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has said “go forth and multiply” might be poor advice for parents who want to ensure their descendants’ economic success. Gondwe said in Lilongwe on Wednesday that Malawians need to “self-regulate to control having large families”. He pointed out that huge families affect population “and the more […]