75,000 teachers deployed for 2010 nationwide census

THE Department of Education will deploy about 75,000 teachers to conduct the nationwide census, which is done every 10 years to generate accurate demographic data essential to government’s socio-economic planning.

Education Secretary Mona Valisno has said that they will deploy 60,000 field enumerators or census takers, 12,000 team supervisors and 3,000 census area supervisors for the census.