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Podcast: Consider This
Episode: Census 2020 (Part 1) - Pandemic's Challenges to Success
Description: The Population and Housing Census is conducted across the country, once every 10 years. The idea is for official data from this census to be used to inform how billions of Ringgit in federal funding will be spent each year, and help fuel research about issues and communities for the next decade. But how true is that? Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin, Chief Statistician at the Department of Statistics Malaysia.