Mbeya City.
East Africa's latest census was far more difficult and involved a far greater workload than it had ten years ago.
Ten years earlier, the region had still been under a fully planned economy. At the time, East Africa's population was less mobile, and the directions of migration were also highly specific and clear. Restricted by policy, people needed all manner of procedures to travel to other regions.
However, ever since the market was opened up, East Africa's control over population movement had been drastically weakened. Under the market economy, people became more mobile, and their movements followed no clear pattern. After all, migration at this time was entirely driven by money. Wherever one could earn more money, people naturally flowed there.
The ways of making money were diverse and utterly impossible to predict, turning East Africa's population flows into a complete mess.
Otervis Town.
This was a township under Mbeya City. In order to investigate the local population, the staff of the Mbeya City Statistics Bureau had no choice but to go deep into the rural grassroots.
At present, Fonte and Rhine, two staff members from the Mbeya City Statistics Bureau, were conducting their investigation in Amphurste Village under Otervis Town.
Fonte and Rhine were both young men. At this moment, they were speaking with Village Chief Dir at the Amphurste Village committee office.
Holding a document, Fonte said to Village Chief Dir, "Chief Dir, the document in my hand is a summary of the household registration records for Otervis Town. According to those records, Amphurste Village, which is under Otervis Town's jurisdiction—that is, this place—has a registered population of 3,208 people. After our verification, the village's actual resident population currently stands at 2,097."
"We would like to know the specific whereabouts of the 1,111 people who are