The census should not have been released until anomalies had been resolved, a UCT demographer has said.
|||Cape Town - The census findings should not have been released until anomalies had been resolved, a UCT demographer has said.
The UCT director of actuarial research, Tom Moultrie, was among a team of international experts contracted by the Statistics Council of SA to edit the census data.
The census results were handed to President Jacob Zuma by Statistician-General Pali Lehohla on Tuesday, a year after the census kicked off.
Moultrie says they were not given sufficient time to study the data; they were expected to go through it over nine days. He had been expecting the data at the end of June, but received it only on October 10.
Moultrie said the census had been a massive undertaking and it was important that the results should be as accurate as possible.
There were a number of improbable results. Estimates of the size of each province were inconsistent and did not reconcile with the data on births, deaths and migration.
Cape Argus