An agreement has finally been reached at the State Census Commission that census taking couples should be of mixed ethnicity, Commission President Vesna Janevska told Kapital. However, the job that should result in a peaceful taking of a census is not yet over and the threat of imbuing this statistical operation with politics again has not been removed altogether.

“At the last meeting of the State Census Commission, we took a step ahead. Albanians and Turks agreed that census couples should consist of census officers of different ethnicity, which means that now the whole Commission has a uniform stance. The second part of the problem – the principle based on which the composition of the couples is determined - has left though. Our suggestion is that the two census officers should represent the two major ethnic communities in the region where they would be working. Albanians suggest different combinations depending on the municipality,” Janevska told Kapital.