The government is considering a draft decision by which it allocates more than 162,000 lei for the payment of reviewers who collected data for the census, in two months that they have ceased their activities.

The census is extremely important to the formation of public policy, although politicians rarely take into account the realities that such an approach reveals.

“Both the government and the private sector need to have data on which they can see where, for example, nurseries or kindergartens should be built, or which will help them allocate transport between different districts, etc.,” he says. in discussion from HotNews Catalin Raiu, INS Communications Director

See the draft decision, the list of settlements and allocated amounts here

What did not work out, in several points

• Cooperation with city halls was not good everywhere. If you look at the final figures from the last release, the last place is occupied by counties with important university centers. My hypothesis, which can only be confirmed after opening the database, is that the students who were supposed to be registered there were registered by their place of residence. So you have targets in Timisoara, Bucharest, Iasi, Sibiu, Constanta. This is one of the assumptions. The second is that where the distance between the mayor and the citizens, I use the distance in the classical sense of the term public policy, is greater, the inspection was worse. In rural areas, in smaller cities, where this distance between the mayor and the citizen is smaller, the survey also went better there.

• In Botoshan, the same discussions of the reviewers once appeared – that they are not well paid, that the field work is difficult… but the prefect there spoke to them, and they explained how important the census was and that it required effort, and finally people understood. But in other parts the prefects or mayors did not have this attitude.

• Reviewers have complained about delays in receiving money and confusion about how verified surveys are calculated. “To give you an idea of ​​how it worked, I can tell you that the temperature outside was over 40C. While on the field, you had no access to toilets. Sometimes you had to deal with respondents who adopted aggressive behavior. It also happened 7 times, on different days, at different times at the same address, I left written messages in the mailbox, messages to neighbors, messages in the HOA WhatsApp groups, pasted posters on announcements. board… In the end, no one opened the door for me. I was struck by the lack of cooperation with those state bodies that were involved in the census process. The tablet was freezing, loading, the system refused to load my peer-reviewed tests.” says one of the reviewers