Economic Census 2024 kicks off tomorrow

The fourth Financial Census of the nation will launch on Tuesday, aiming to own a comprehensive working out of the structural adjustments in the nation’s financial system over time.

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) announced this at a press briefing held at its auditorium nowadays.

The census, which is in a situation to be performed nationwide from 10-26 December, will utilise a really digital machine.

The slogan for the Financial Census 2024 is “Orthonoitik Shumarite Tottho Din, Notun Bangladesh Binirmane Ongsho Nin”.

Statistics and Informatics Division Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) Director Well-liked Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, Financial Census Project Director and Additional Secretary SM Shakil Akhter, and Statistics Division Joint Secretary Dr Dipankar Roy spoke at the press briefing. Financial Census Deputy Project Director Mizanur Rahman supplied a high level thought of the census.

The predominant targets of the Financial Census are to function insights into structural adjustments in the financial system over time; resolve the structure of non-farm financial actions; provide institutional files; offer predominant info about organisations engaged in financial actions, classified by form; estimate the physique of workers alive to about financial actions and discover 22 situation their classifications; assess facilities on hand in industries or corporations; categorise industries and corporations in response to capital investment and physique of workers structure; and provide updated files to policymakers, planners, researchers, and various stakeholders for industrial pattern.

Md Mahbub Hossain said this Financial Census would be completely paperless, leaving no scope for external interference.

He said digital maps had been created the advise of Geographic Files Draw (GIS) and geo-coding to make sure the soft execution of census actions.

Enumerators own already been supplied with identity cards to facilitate get admission to to census devices.

The secretary urged all stakeholders to be obvious animated participation and cooperation for the success of the financial census.

Project Director SM Shakil Akhter talked about that a story on the predominant census operations would be ready by the pinnacle of January 2025. Some 95,000 expert and experienced enumerators had been chosen for the census, he added.

A total of 140,000 capsules had been willing for the Financial Census, with 1.13 lakh capsules saved on standby, following their advise in the most modern Inhabitants Census.

Responding to a question, Joint Secretary Dr Dipankar Roy highlighted new facets of this census, including the introduction of profits, expenditure, and revenue files for devices and the inclusion of e-commerce operations.

“One enumerator will gather files on 150 devices, including new establishments internal their jurisdiction,” Dr Roy said.

The census will hide 1.22 crore financial households, guaranteeing no financial advise is excluded, even cell devices fancy vegetable vendors on vans.

He additionally talked about that a Put up-Enumeration Ascertain (PEC) would be performed to rectify any errors veil in the census.

This one year’s Financial Census will encompass new parts, equivalent to files on international nationals working in Bangladesh and records on digital and e-commerce corporations.

The census will tackle social and environmental issues, name challenges, and grasp ICT integration in production processes via 70 questions. This could well presumably also merely additionally analyse institutions’ profits, expenditure, and profitability.

The nation has been divided into 13 divisions, 130 districts, 520 Upazilas, 2,600 zones, 19,000 supervisory areas, and 95,000 enumeration areas for the census.

The three-one year Financial Census project has a budget of Tk579 crore.

Because the national statistical agency, the BBS conducts inhabitants, agricultural, and financial censuses.

The nation’s first Financial Census became performed in 1986, adopted by the 2nd in 2001 and 2003 (in phases), and the third in 2013.