The Director of the BiH Agency for Statistics Zdenko Milinović said at a press conference in Sarajevo that preparations for the census are in the final stages.
There is still a need to adopt to technical issues that will be on the questionnaire with the requirements of software for data processing”, said Milinović. He added that the questionnaire will soon be published in the official journal and available to the public.
They are also working on solutions for data processing and preparations of equipment required for the list, and three systems have been acquired for videoconferencing for statistical agencies.
At a question posed by journalists on whether responses will be counted where people, for example, declare themselves as either Bosniaks or Muslims, he said that it will not be done unless there is an agreement at the state level on this.
Regarding language, he said that in the questionnaire there is not an answer for a Bosnian language, because what does exist are three official languages of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian, and that every answer that is entered received a second code.
