A national population census is scheduled to start in August, with preliminary results to be published one year later, Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported on Monday. “A census is an expensive exercise but a vital one for studying the population structure and conditions of living in order to plan more easily,” it quoted Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Donald Kaberuka as saying. Rwanda last carried out a national census in 1981. RNA said the US$ 6-million census exercise would, “to some extent,” establish the number of victims from the 1994 genocide but a more specific study on genocide victims would be carried out by the Ministry of Local Government.
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