Myanmar's first census in three decades extended amid controversy


  • World
  • Saturday, 12 Apr 2014

Volunteers attend a census training course at a school in Yangon March 23, 2014. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

YANGON (Reuters) - A group of women dressed in green sarong-like longyis and simple white blouses stand around a table piled with census forms, entering neat notations on spreadsheets by hand.

The women will have to go through 37,579 family census forms, according to officials, using calculators to tally the total numbers because they have no access to computers.

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