Analyst Skënder Minxhozi commented on the population and housing census.
He said that in the Balkans, the census is not just arithmetic, but has a different weight, because according to him, ethnicity and religion have been used and are being used as weapons between neighboring countries.
"This comes because I think that the census in a region like the Balkans is not arithmetic. In the Balkans, this has a weight, because ethnicity and religion have been used as long-term weapons between states to promote rights beyond their territory.
It is no coincidence that Rama today evokes, on the day of the lynching of the census, the problem that Albania has with Greece, which is basically a problem of claims, not territories. A burning problem between the two countries, because for a long time the rights of minorities have been advertised especially by the Greek side, much less by the Albanian side, for their minority here, while we more rightly manage to say something about such claims in Greece.
The debates in 2011 about the registration of ethnicity and religion have been great, this census is not a simple arithmetic and bureaucratic exercise, but a delicate exercise to photograph the situation in Albania in the components that I mentioned.
We have to say something else, that Albania deserves a census based on science, because we live in an environment where even in a developed segment such as the Tirana-Durres highway, the address is kilometer 6, before the Shkozet turn," said Minxhozi. invited to the "Newsline" studio.
In Albania, the Institute of Statistics is expected to start the Population and Housing Census from next Monday in a process that will last for six weeks.
The 2023 Census is the country's most important statistical event, and it will involve over 7,500 surveyors, supervisors and controllers trained by the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT).
They will record data on the population, demographic, social and economic characteristics detailed at the geographical level, related to housing, education, health, and employment.
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