{"id":99846,"date":"2021-03-30T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=180474"},"modified":"2021-03-30T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T13:47:58","slug":"coming-to-their-census-in-the-balkans-counting-is-never-as-easy-as-1-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/30\/coming-to-their-census-in-the-balkans-counting-is-never-as-easy-as-1-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming To Their Census: In The Balkans, Counting Is Never As Easy As 1-2-3\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s a census year, virtually, like no other.<\/p>\n
Nearly all of the world’s national statistical snapshots this year will be skewed by distance working and learning, travel bans, and other household anomalies brought on by lockdowns in one of the most transformative global health crises in human history.<\/p>\n
With COVID-19 still a serious threat, governments and census organizers face stark challenges that arise with the decennial tallies.<\/p>\n
Data collection that began last week in England, Wales, and the Czech Republic is, for the first time, mostly electronic and online. Internet servers in the Czech Republic were briefly overwhelmed.<\/p>\n
Russia is due to gather all of its data in April for the third national census under President Vladimir Putin, who will have overseen each of his country’s post-Soviet censuses — highlighting population decline<\/a><\/strong> fed partly by cronyism and denied opportunity.<\/p>\n