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peppertree

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Thu May 19, 2022, 07:04 PM May 2022

Argentina holds 11th national population and housing census

Argentina held a national population and housing census on Wednesday - only its 11th since 1869.

Around 600,000 census takers - most of them schoolteachers - worked from 8 a.m. to past 6 p.m., and enumerated around 15 million homes and 47,327,407 people - an 18% increase from the 2010 census.

The 2022 census was the first in the country in which an online form was made available, and according to Statistics Institute (INDEC) head Marco Lavagna, some 23.8 million Argentines had availed themselves of this resource since its rollout on March 16th.

Each questionnaire detailed 24 questions on housing and 37 on population - including, for the first time, non-binary gender identity choices.

While Argentina's constitution does not provide for a national census, these were taken generationally from 1869 to 1947 - and roughly once a decade since then.

Today's count had been delayed by 18 months due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, as well as severe debt and economic crises inherited from the right-wing Mauricio Macri administration.

The country's last census, in 2010, counted 40,117,096 people in 11,317,507 occupied homes and 23,626 group housing facilities.

"The last census was the day we lost (former President) Néstor Kirchner - a day of great sadness that will always remain in my memory," President Alberto Fernández recalled.

At: https://www-pagina12-com-ar.translate.goog/422647-censo-2022-las-cifras-y-detalles-del-primer-censo-bimodal-de?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp



Argentine President Alberto Fernández and First Lady Fabiola Yáñez sit down with census takers on Wednesday. She holds their infant son Francisco, born April 11th.

The country's census this year was the first to feature an online form - and the first to include non-binary gender choices.

A 2020 electoral court ruling enjoined congress to update its representation, which is still distributed according to 1980 census results.
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Argentina holds 11th national population and housing census (Original Post) peppertree May 2022 OP
It's good to see President Fernandez arranged this updated, sensible census. Judi Lynn May 2022 #1
And he pulled it off despite a RW media campaign aimed at discouraging people from participating peppertree May 2022 #2

Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
1. It's good to see President Fernandez arranged this updated, sensible census.
Sun May 22, 2022, 06:55 AM
May 2022

Looks as if there has been a remarkable growth in population numbers. Excellent. Undoubtedly many have returned after they left under the military dictatorship, and its proponent, the recent Mauricio Macri.

It could mean people are gaining confidence in the economy now that Alberto Fernández has done so much to start pulling the economy and society out of the ditch after destructive, greedy fascist Macri, left.

peppertree

(21,530 posts)
2. And he pulled it off despite a RW media campaign aimed at discouraging people from participating
Sun May 22, 2022, 07:16 PM
May 2022

Preliminary results show that the country's population was a full 1 million more than projections - which speaks to how complete the count was; but which has also fed RW talking points that "Cristina and Alberto are letting in too many indians from the neighboring countries!"

Like Trump, Macri and his ilk are very good at dog-whistling to white racists on this subject - and in fact I'd say better than Trump is, since they're very seldom as blatantly bigoted.

These census results are already being weaponized in that direction.

The fact that Macri's in-laws make their money by exploiting undocumented Bolivian seamstresses (subcontracted to their clothing chain 'Cheeky') doesn't seem to register to RW voters.

The message, as Marshall MacLuhan might say in this case, is the medium.

Thanks as always, Judi - have a have a great week.

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