A SUMMARY progress report on the 2022 Census of Population and Housing has revealed that a number of civil servants were identified and subsequently dropped from accessing the temporal census jobs in line with recruitment guidelines. The report, which was released by Zambia Statistics Agency, disclosed that 171 civil servants were identified among applicants in eight provinces. “At national level, all the districts have deployed (100 percent deployment), 97 percent enumeration and 96 percent payment of training allowance. Progress has been made to commence processing 40 percent field allowance down payment to enumerators and supervisors including the Zonals’ 50 percent down payment. [A] number of civil servants were identified and subsequently dropped in line with the recruitment guidelines which clearly...