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However, Home Based Care questionnaire will be excluded because the Central Statistics says data for such is available from inter-censal surveys and administration records.

This year's census will take place during the school terms. The CSO says this is likely to distort some data, as students at boarding schools will be enumerated at their hostels, thereby including them at localities where the institutions are located.

'This is likely to distort locality population, especially in small villages, given that all previous census were conducted during the school holidays', the organization observes.