Extract from the draft report of the seventeenth session of the United Nations Population Commission

Abstract

The analysis of present census plans indicates that in all the countries it will be possible to obtain basic demographic characteristics for the total population in urban and rural sedentary areas; that in a significant number of countries it would no.t be: possible to obtain complete information on the economic characteristics of the populations and that in many countries special attention is being given to items which are of considerable interest to the respective countries, such as for example, the residence, mobility of the population (nomads, semi-nomads and visitors) as well as the age at the first marriage.