Gambia: Whispers From the Field –

I had the opportunity to participate in the Gambia Population and Housing Census (2024) conducted by the Gambia Bureau of Statistics. This data collection exercise is carried out once every decade. The exercise involves recruiting and training thousands of would-be data collectors on interview techniques and digital data collection for the first time in the country. So it is a big deal. The exercise is meant to gauge the country’s population covering a wide scope of thematic areas…