Difficulties Of Carrying Out Population Data Gathering In Developing Countries

Question 1

South Africa and Kenya

Answer 1

Large number of people living in shanty town settlements without proper addresses for forms to be sent or enumerator to visit

Question 2

Sudan and DR Congo

Answer 2

Vast territories to cover - challenging terrain
Poor communication
Those in remote villages unaccounted for

Question 3

Nigeria

Answer 3

500 languages spoken making it impossible to produce a form which can be read by everyone
Cannot be put into one database

Question 4

All developing countries

Answer 4

Costs involved in printing, training enumerators, distributing forms and analysing results cannot be afforded

Question 5

Burkina Faso

Answer 5

80% of population illiterate meaning that people require enumerators to complete forms leading to errors

Question 6

Governments

Answer 6

People may be suspicious and unwilling to give private information to an enumerator
Provide false information

Question 7

Rwanda

Answer 7

Difficult to collect certain information such as religion and ethnic group
People afraid of prosecution

Question 8

Brazil

Answer 8

Tribal people migrate

Rainforest tribes may be missed out or counted twice due to their unusual nature