PBS provides required census data to ECP

ISLAMABAD, Jan 11 (APP):The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has provided all the required census data to Election
Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as decided in a meeting held on December 22.
“All the required data of population and housing census 2017 has been handed over to ECP as per
scheduled devised in a meeting between ECP and PBS on December 22,” said PBs
statement issued here Thursday.
During the meeting, which was chaired by Election Commissioner of Pakistan, it was decided that the CCP would provide the required data to ECP by January 10 and the same has been
handed over accordingly.
The PBS provided maps of census Charges and Circles as well as the maps of urban and rural blocks besides providing census results up to block level in both soft and hard form.
The data has been submitted to the Central office of ECP in Islamabad and at all provincial
office of the commission.
The statement added that the PBS had established special cell for the compilation of election
related data so that it might be timely provided to the ECP to continue its work
on delimitation of constituencies without any hurdle.
It is pertinent to mention here that the country was divided into 163,541 blocks to conducted
the 6ht Population and Housing Census smoothly. According to provisional
results, the population of these blocks was recorded at 207774520.
The population of 21577 blocks of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was
recorded at 30523371 individuals while there was population of 5001676 in 4098
blocks of FATA.
Similarly, the population in 87006 blocks of Punjab was
110012442 individuals where as in 39139 blocks it was recorded 47886051, in
10207 blocks of Balohistan there was population of 12344408 individuals whereas
in 1514 blocks of Islamabad, the population consisted of 2006572 individuals.