The High Commission for Planning recently launched a call for tenders for the study and implementation of an integrated IT solution for carrying out the general population and housing census (RGPH) 2024.
Preparations for the seventh general census of population and housing (RGPH), scheduled for 2024, are accelerating. After a first call for tenders for the acquisition and installation of the computer equipment needed to carry out this major operation, the High Commission for Planning (HCP) has just launched a second one, this time for the implementation of an integrated IT solution.
The Statistics Department within the HCP has in fact chosen to use, after authorization from the Head of Government, a specialized service provider in order to entrust it with the services relating to the study and the implementation of an IT solution. integrated for the realization of the RGPH, including the related training and assistance services.
A choice which is explained by the complexity of such an operation leading to increased recourse to the use of new generation technologies to meet the complex needs of collecting and using RGPH data.
The document relating to this contract, which Le360 has been able to consult, specifies that the services to be provided consist of nine phases, which range from the study of needs, the configuration and installation of the solution, to support in the dissemination of the results of the RGPH, through training and support in carrying out cartographic work.
The implementation of an integrated IT solution to carry out the RGPH mainly aims at the total digitalization of the process of preparation and production of geographical and statistical data.
Ahmed Lahlimi, High Commissioner for Planning, chaired a working session in early May attended by experts in the field of new information technologies representing ministerial departments and specialized national institutions. Objective: to ensure this large-scale operation “the best operational efficiency and the lowest financial cost”.
The RGPH is an exhaustive operation carried out throughout the national territory, and it concerns the entire population and all the households residing there.
The census method adopted is that of direct interview (door to door). However, certain categories of the population are counted according to specific methods, namely the population counted separately, the population passing through hotels and similar, the “homeless” people and the nomadic population, explains the HCP on its website. .
The data collected is of great importance. They allow decision-makers, public or private, to better understand the evolution of society and to adapt their policies accordingly.