INEI and the Ministry of Culture coming together to strengthen the cultural identity in the 2025 National Censuses

The National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) and the Ministry of Culture (MINCUL) signed a commitment document to boost the national campaign “I identify myself with proud”, an initiative that sought to reevaluate our roots and to strengthen the cultural identity across the country, within the framework of the previous actions to the 2025 National Censuses: XIII of Population, VIII of Housing and IV of Indigenous Communities.

This commitment has as central axis the promotion of questions related with the ethnic self-identification and the language learn during the childhood, that will be included in the census form. This information is clue considering the diversity of Peru, a country with 55 indigenous, native people that talk 48 languages, in addition of afro-Peruvian population and other communities culturally different.

Through this agreement, the INEI and the MINCUL will coordinate actions with representative organizations of indigenous, native people and afro-Peruvian people, in order to raise awareness of the citizenship and to generate confidence to answer the census officers that visit their households.

It is worth to mention that the information collected – in Spanish and in indigenous or native languages – will allow the State to design better public policies and services that answers to the identity, the language and the customs of each village.

The commitment agreement was signed by the vice-minister of Interculturality of the MINCUL, Percy Barranzuela Bombilla, and the chief of the INEI, Gaspar Morán Flores, in a ceremony held in the Ministry of Culture Headquarters.

The event was attended by representatives of the indigenous or native people, as well as the afro-Peruvian organizations, such as Tusan and Nikkei, reflecting the diversity and cultural richness of the country.

Both authorities reaffirmed their commitment of working together under the principles of respect, interculturality, transparency and collaboration, to ensure a representative, inclusive census process and in accordance with the cultural identity of Peru.