Velimir Jukic, director of the BiH Statistical Agency, told reporters on Monday that his agency and his entity counterparts have still not been able to reach an agreement on criteria for processing and publishing data from the 2013 census. If the data are not published by July 1, BiH could lose some of its EU funding.
Stating that 196,000 census forms (questionnaires) are controversial, Jukic has said that there were three proposals for residency determination reviewed at today’s meeting.
He says he is not certain when the next session of the Central Census Bureau will be held.
Director of the Repubublika Srpska Statistics Institute, Radmila Cikovic, has expressed disappointment that there was no agreement reached on a uniform programme for data processing of the census of population, households and dwellings after four-hour-long session on Monday.
Director of the FBiH Statistics Institute Emir Kremic expressed the hope that, with the increased engagement of people in the statistics agencies, the census results could be published within a legal time limit.
