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SADC GIS – a geoinformation foundation for the region Phase 1 of this project has largely been completed with the provision of data sets for most of the 14 countries at a sub-national level. Countries like the DRC and Angola, have limited capacity and therefore have not been able to contribute effectively to the project. Through the use of a questionnaire information was also obtained on censuses conducted in the different SADC countries. The graph below shows that the last census undertaken in many of the SADC countries was in the years 1997-2002 and that the countries with the oldest censuses are Mozambique and Swaziland (i.e. 1997). The next census will be undertaken between the years of 2006 and 2001. It is really only South Africa that continues to have a 5-yearly census while most of the other SADC countries have a decentennial census. Concern must also be voiced about the fact that with countries undertaking censuses on different years it will always be difficult to do comparisons between countries. The question should be asked whether all the countries involved should not undertake their next census in 2010. 
The next phase of this project is to look at the feasibility of capturing into GIS a country enumerator area, which will be pilot-tested in Zimbabwe.
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