COLOMBO, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka on Wednesday launched its new population and housing census, which is an exercise done once in 10 years, the President's Media Division (PMD) said.
The PMD said the census was initiated at the Presidential Secretariat which was listed as the first building to be recorded in the census.
"A remarkable feature of this year's census is the incorporation of tablet computers, alongside traditional printed documents for data collection," the PMD said.
The Department of Census and Statistics had planned to conduct a population and housing census of the country in 2021 but postponed it due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Asian country's last census was conducted in 2012. ■
