Representatives of the Federal Office of Statistics attended the 46th session of the Central Census Bureau on Thursday, where they discussed the results of the analysis regarding the issues of determining resident status.
It is known that members of the Bureau disagree, or more specifically that there is disagreement between the Republika Srpska Institute of Statistics and the Federal Office of Statistics.
“Representatives of the Federal Office of Statistics support offered solutions and recommendations of the International Monitoring Operation (IMO) and believe that the Agency for Statistics of BiH should establish a unique program for processing of the material of census in 2013, in accordance with the recommendations of the IMO team,” as stated from the Federal Office of Statistics.
On the session was presented the proposal to accept the IMO’s program of processing the data in a way that ethnicity, language and religion gets removed from 121 280 questionnaires for which there is currently no approval for obtaining resident status, i.e. to mark this section with “unknown”, in order to include them in residents.
The Federal Office of Statistics refused the mentioned proposal, by calling upon the Law on the Census, European recommendations and the recommendation of the International Monitoring Operation.
The Federal Office of Statistics refused to reveal who proposed to remove ethnicity, language and religion from more than 120,000 questionnaires. However, it is known that the representatives of the Republika Srpska Institute of Statistics previously had similar proposals that conflict with international standards.
To recall, on Thursday, or less than 3 months until the deadline for the publication of the census results, the final agreement on the methodology according to which the results would be published, was not agreed.
(Source: I. P./Klix.ba)
