Census of population planned in 2009 in Azerbaijan

The agency Trend reports, the head of the head of State committee on statistics Arif Veliyev informed about this to journalist 22 April.

He said, the application of State committee on statistics to the president of the state Ilham Aliyev with proposal about conducting of this measure is planned for mid of 2006.

A.Veliyev also informed this time census is to be conducted not in January but in the end of April or in the beginning of May.

"We considered purposeful conducting of census, namely, in May, and for omitted period comparative is to be conducted"-A. Veliyev remarked.

The last census was conducted in the state (that time during Azerbaijan SSR) in 1989. Such actions were not conducted after getting independence by Azerbaijan.