INEI will census register persons that live in collective housings across the country
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22 de September de 2025 - 9:46 a. m.
Census officers will visit hospitals, prisons, convents, boarding schools, rehabilitation centers and establishments for the attention of children and older adults, among others.
In order to know the characteristics and distribution of the population that lives in in collective establishments, the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) will start the census of this type of housing, within the framework of the 2025 National Censuses: XIII of Population, VIII of Housing and IV of Indigenous Communities.
The chief of the INEI, explained that the collective housings are those inhabited by unrelated persons, that share administrative rules and live life in common due to study, health, religion, work or tourism. These are considered collective housings as long as they have habitual residents at the moment of the census operation.
He stated that the census officers will visit health establishments, prison facilities, convents, monasteries, seminars, boarding schools, rehabilitation center for persons with additions or disorders, as well as spaces intended to the residential attention of children, adolescents and older adults.
Likewise, he also stated that hotels, hostels, accommodation, board homes and similar will also be census registered, because in these places’ live persons in transit due to tourism, rest or vacations.
Census in correctional facilities
Information collected in prison facilities Will develop in coordination with the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) and Will last 30 calendar days, from September 22nd to October 17th, informed the chief of the INEI from Lurigancho Prison Establishment.
Morán Flores informed that the census will cover 69 prison establishments at national level. In addition, he also stressed that the designed census officers will comply strict safety protocols and will be duly identify with purple vest and cap, gray haversacks and credential with QR code.
The chief of the INEI informed that in the departments of Huancavelica, Puno, Cajamarca and Lambayeque, the departmental coordinators of identity security, has been carrying out arrangements with the INPE authorities of its respective jurisdictions, as a previous stage at the beginning of the census in the prison establishments.
Gaspar Morán headed the start of the Collective Housings Census in Lurigancho Prison Establishment, accompanied by the Justice vice minister, Jesús Baldeón Vásquez, and the INPE chief, Iván Paredes Yataco.