Census takers in Taiwan facing modern-day challenges: officials

Focus Taiwan
Date: 11/14/2020
By: Pan Tzu-yu and Kay Liu

Taipei, Nov. 14 (CNA) Personnel in Taiwan working on the current national population and housing census have been encountering some difficulties, due in part to people's mistrust of strangers seeking personal information, according to government officials.

Even as the government sought to make the process easier and more convenient for some households, the decennial census got off to a rocky start on Nov. 1, when a newly introduced site for online surveys crashed due to unexpectedly heavy traffic, according to the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

Meanwhile, 1.2 million of Taiwan's 8.83 million households have been selected for in-person surveys, which are being conducted by some 16,000 census workers, according to the DGBAS.

On that front, the challenge lies in getting people to give their personal and household information, in an age when there is so much distrust and fear of scammers, the DGBAS said.
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