Report on the African census programme

Abstract

The African consus programme was undertaken in accordance with recommendations made at the second meeting of the ECA Technical committee of experts and approved by the First Conference of Ministers in February 1971. Subsequently the Programme was endorsed by ECA standing bodies on statistics and population the conference of African Statisticians and the Conference of African Demographers which met in Accorda in October 1971 and December 1971, respectively. It was also discussed at the Sixteenth Session of the population Commission held in Geneva in November 1971, at the Seventeenth Session of the Statistical Commission held in November 1972 in Geneva, and at the Second Special Session of the Population commission held in New York in March 1973.