Hong Kong to exempt 90% of households from ‘re-engineered’ 2026 census

Hong Kong authorities will exempt 90 per cent of households from a population census next year, opting instead for a “re-engineered” model that uses existing data to track the city’s demographics – a major break from decades of statistical tradition. Commissioner for Census and Statistics Leo Yu Chun-keung said on Friday that the 2026 population census had been revamped to improve workflow. “To modernise the mode of Hong Kong’s population census, we will implement several re-engineering...