A team of monitors from Eurostat, a body of the EU, is going to oversee the census to be taken on 1-15 April next year in order not to bring into question the trust of the census results and not because of the state’s incapacity to take it on its own, said Blagica Novkovska, director of the State Statistical Office.

In her view, the “light monitoring” unlike the classical one is carried out in countries that are professionally prepared to take a census, yet hire monitors because of the trust of the census results.