The Leader: All should participate in general census

Ayatollah Khamenei receives officials of the General Census Headquarters and Statistical Center of Iran.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting on Tuesday with officials in charge of the General Census of Population and Housing Headquarters, members of the Supreme Statistics Council, and directors of the Statistical Center of Iran mentioned “accurate, centralized and scientific” statistics as the main basis of efficient decision-making in the country. Highlighting the importance of the general census plan, the Leader addressed the Iranian people, saying, “All dear people must take serious part in this important plan.”

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution described statistics as an inevitable and major necessity for planning with regard to the country’s diverse and extensive resources and needs, adding, “In order for the decision-making process in the country to be ‘correct, timely, and efficient’, all dear people must both take part in the important plan and make available the necessary statistics and information to statistical organs in an accurate manner and, as said by officials, [collected] statistics will be kept confidential.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei addressed officials in charge of collecting statistics in the country, saying, “Statistics must both delineate the status quo and clarify the ‘trend of changes’, so that, at the present time when the speed of changes is very high, the country’s officials and decision-makers would not be taken by surprise as a result of changes in the [existing] trends.”