India is gearing up for census as well, which will include biometric information this time around--for everybody who is 15 years or older--according to the BBC:
"India has been conducting a national census since 1872," the man leading the exercise C Chandramouli told the AFP news agency. "Nothing - floods, droughts, even wars - has been able to stop it.
"The trick is to get things right the first time. There is no question of a re-census."
Over the next year, some 2.5 million census officials will visit households in more than 7,000 towns and 600,000 villages.
The officials, many of them teachers and local officials, will first begin the process of house listing - which records information on homes.
This count will, for the first time, also attempt to gather information on the use of the internet and the availability of drinking water and toilets in households.
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