Abstract
Following the release of the special issue of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS on Population and Housing Census, a platform was opened to discuss several topics related to the census, such as the definition of the census, the methodologies and technologies used to conduct a population and housing census. In particular, in a context of increasing access to administrative data, the relevance of the traditional census was discussed, in regard to its huge cost. Finally, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the censuses planed for the years 2020 and 2021 was raised as monitored by international organisations.
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