Romania’s National Institute of Statistics (INS) announced on May 13 that people would have more time to participate in the online phase of the ongoing census. Thus, the self-review platform will be open until Friday, May 27.

This phase of the population and household census had May 15 as the initial deadline.

According to INS, the decision to extend the deadline was taken amid an increased interest of the population for this option - over 400,000 online questionnaires were completed daily, compared to an average of 120,000 in the previous period, Digi24 reported.

More than 8.4 million questionnaires were completed by May 12.

Romanians who do not have access to the Internet will be interviewed at home between May 31 and July 17.

irina.marica@romania-insider.com

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