The booklet highlights in total 36 questions and gives answers that cover a wide range of issues concerned with the overall census enumeration process such as: the reason for conducting a census, the costs involved, the value and the future benefits in which the census will bring for the people of Myanmar, the stages of data release and links between the census and the election process. It also outlines the data processing phase and as well as the steps that have been undertaken to verify the accuracy of data results, the role of stakeholders, concerns on the results on ethnicity and religion and the form in which the main data results will be released and how the data can be used, as well as the data that will be released later. 


The publication is the result of a series of consultations and interactions that are ongoing and started in May 2014. These have involved meetings on data release and dissemination with representatives of different sectors of society across States and Regions in Myanmar, including women and youth organisations, political and religious leaders, non-state and state leaders, ethnic groups, political parties, civil society and community-based organisations, prominent individuals from the private and business sectors, as well as media and government officials. In addition to the meetings that occurred in Regions and States, visits by mixed groups of stakeholders have taken place to the Census Centre in Nay Pyi Taw to enable groups to see for themselves the various phases of the ongoing census process. Link to the full publication.