Population Census of Angola

Country:  Angola
City:  Luanda

Background

 

• Incomplete data on the country’s citizens due to unavailability of identification documents and illiteracy with several population groups

 

Scope

 

• Building the population register of Angola citizens based on the database containing their biometric identifiers (fingerprints)
• Project coverage - over 7.5 million people

 

Implementation

 

• Division of the country into over 2 thousand enumeration areas, about 2,000 people in each
• Splitting Angolans into 20 subsets managed by sex and age factors
• Enrollment involves the scanning of 3 fingerprints and input of other demographic information
• Primary processing of the enrolled fingerprints and other demographic information obtained by the enumerators
• Transmittal of the collected data to a central computing centre, where the population register database is being created
• Embedding 3,200 U-Match biometric scanners into mobile enumeration stations

 

Outcome

 

• Compliance with internationally accepted ISO standards: ISO/IEC 19794-2, specifying the data format for digital representation of fingerprints, and ISO/IEC 19794-4, defining the interchange format of finger image data.
• Increased efficiency of enrollment and identification procedures
• International acceptance of biometrics for the population register
• Biometric identification of enumerators to protect citizens’ personal information and prevent possible misuses while enrolling and processing it