INEI: 97% of registered houses opened its doors to 2025 National Censuses

97% of the most of two million and a half of households registered across the country answered the interview, which reflected the widespread participation and the commitment of the citizenship with the 2025 National Censuses, informed the chief of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), Gaspar Morán Flores.

From Moquegua, the chief of the INEI stated that, at the end the first working period of the 2025 Censuses, the households still pending for registering belong mainly to cases in which the informants were not on working days. For this reason, the visits will continue the end of the weekends in order to ensure a total coverage.

Morán stressed the effort and the commitment of the field equipment, underlining that the census officers are fully identified and enabled to fulfil its task. In this sense, he discarded the versions about the mass resignation of census officers in different regions of the country.

He also pointed out that the new calls meet the need to cover the new intervention zones and they have the required personnel for the Indigenous Communities Census, that will be carried out between September and October.

He also reminded that initially contracted to 24,000 from the 30,000 census officers necessary, and that recent additions will allow to reach the 100% of the goal to attend native, peasant communities and new areas programmed.

The chief of the INEI informed that a close coordination is maintained with the National Police of Peru (PNP) to reinforce safety of the census personnel. He also added that the census officers’ victims of criminal acts are accompanied by the Institution, guaranteeing his protection and well-being.

Morán announced that two districts had already ended the census process at 100%: Totora, in the province of Rodríguez de Mendoza (Amazonas), and Musga, in the province of Mariscal Luzuriaga (Ancash).


Finally, he made a call to the population to continue participating in the 2025 National Censuses, stressing that the collected information will be essential to design public politics that promote the development and well-being of all female and male Peruvians.

The chief of the INEI arrived to Moquegua to participate in the Regional Articulation Table of for the Security of the Census Personnel, with the assistance of Abelardo Cervera Veliz, the chief of police of Moquegua; the PNP general Óscar Alexis Rodríguez Vallés, chief of the Police Region of Moquegua; the PNP colonel Edward Villanueva Wole, chief of the DIPOUPS, among other local authorities.