TEST POPULATION CENSUS IN KARABAKH

AZG Armenian Daily #072, 22/04/2005

Karabakh diary

Artsakh will undergo population census on October 17-28 of the
current year. This will be the first census ever for the Republic of
Nagorno Karabakh. By a government decree, a test population census
was held on March 21-30. The test census was held in Stepanakert,
in Noragyugh prefecture of Askeran region, and in Nerqin Haratagh
village of Martakert region.

Sergey Davtian, head of NKR Statistics Service, said that the results
of the test census are being examined. He said that all organizational
works are completed and that more than 700 people are enrolled for
registering, encoding etc.

By Kim Gabrielian in Stepanakert