The first official census to take place in BiH since the war of the 1990s began today. It is scheduled to be completed by October 15.
The census is expected to yield an exact social and economic snapshot of Bosnia which will also reveal changes in the distribution of its population caused by the war that raged through the country between 1992-1995.
As a result of the conflict, hundreds of thousands of people were either killed, forced to move home or fled the country.
The census was for years a matter of dispute in Bosnia with political parties there unable to agree on whether or not to hold it until after the implementation of Annex 7 of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, which prescribes the right to the unconditional return of refugees to their pre-war homes.
