Today our guest is Stats SA Chief Director if Communications Trevor Oosterwyk. 

• Statistics South Africa is set to conduct a population census between 3 and 28 February 2022.
• This year’s census is the first digital population count and the fourth population count since 1994.
• A population count is held every 10 years with the data of each citizen in every household across South Africa is collected.
• A census collects data about a country’s socio-economic dynamics such as people’s living conditions, access to basic services and income, among others.
• The latest census was conducted in 2011, which found that South Africa’s population increased to 51.8 million compared to 40.6 million counted in 1996.