The data on the total number of enumerated persons announced by the Directorate for Statistics (Monstat) on December 29 and those published today differ by more than 40.000, and the question arises whether it is possible that so many persons were enumerated in one day, it was said. from CDT's "Action" podcast.
The executive director of CDT, Dragan Koprivica, said that the most important of the data presented by Monstat at the presentation of the preliminary results of the census is the number of people enumerated and how many citizens live in Montenegro.
"The director of Monstat said in the Public Service diary on December 29 that 632.000 inhabitants had been enumerated up to that moment, and today in the press he says that it is 673.000. It turns out that 40 or more thousand people were enumerated in one day and that is something that I significant. How is that even possible?" said Koprivica.
The executive director of the Society of Statisticians and Demographers (DSD) and former director of Monstat, Gordana Radojević, recalled that the dynamics of the enumeration could be monitored through the data published by the Parliamentary Committee for Monitoring the Implementation of the Census.
"We can see the dynamics of the enumeration from December 10 to December 28. That last data, as of the last day, shows that 627.340 inhabitants were enumerated. The day after that, that number was 632.083 persons or filled out census forms. Is it possible in one day to enumerate 40.000 under these conditions - no, because the enumeration commissions de facto finished their work on December 28, and for those two last days of the enumeration there were some exceptional cases - residents who were absent, who were not there during the enumeration. those were enumerations by invitation when the enumerators were obliged to visit the citizens who called them in the housing unit. This is not realistic, there is a possibility that the data reported by the parliamentary committee may not have been accurate and timely, but we will see that," Radojević said. .
Koprivica appealed to the Committee for Monitoring the Implementation of the Census to meet and explain this difference in the smallest detail.
"That committee did a good job in the first phase, increased transparency, people cooperated and exchanged data, and that's why we think it's their duty to explain this to the smallest detail," said Koprivica.
Radojević, explaining the data published by Monstat, clarified that the total enumerated population is all those who were in the territory of Montenegro at the time of the enumeration.
"These can be citizens who live in Montenegro, who are temporarily absent and so on, that is the widest group of the enumerated population," said Radojević.
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The total population or the population living in Montenegro, explained Radojević, is a much narrower category.
"It contains only those persons who normally spend time in Montenegro, regardless of their citizenship. Whether you have citizenship or residence is not a relevant criterion for the statistical determination of the total population, anyone who was found during the census and gave information that they lived in Montenegro for 12 months Gori, or in short, and expressed the intention to live there is the total population," explained Radojević.
Asked if the preliminary and final results could differ, Radojević pointed out that Monstat presented data that underwent comprehensive control, and which were generated at the commission level, by enumerators and their instructors.
"And Monstat, we assume, made an accurate collection of data from the field. Final and preliminary data can differ, and it is not good for it to be a significant difference, those differences are from one to two percent. They can be different for several reasons, double censuses, that someone who lives outside of Montenegro was registered as a resident of Montenegro and not as a diaspora... We can expect the final results to be lower than the preliminary ones," she said.
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