2017 Chilean census

The census took place on 19 April 2017, starting at 08:00 in the morning, and by 10:00 in the morning, according to a joint statement by Minister of Economy Luis Felipe Céspedes and the director of the National Statistics Institute Ximena Clark, over 75% of local people were entered into the system.^[1] People who were not censed by the end of the day could fill up the questionnaire either in physical form or via a digital platform in later dates.^[2][3]

Multiple attacks against census workers were reported in cities like Santiago and Coquimbo.^[4][5] The most severe of these was an attack against census workers in Temucuicui, where the census was suspended due to the attack.^[6][7][8] Due to heavy rain in Northern Chile, census data forms related to 72,000 homes in the Atacama Region, amounting to 60% of the region's total population and 72% of the region's housing, were damaged, which caused the National Statistics Institute to consider reconducting the census in the affected communes.^{[9][10][11][12]}

The census questionnaire consisted of 21 questions among four sections; the A section, which is filled in by the censist and consists of housing identification, the B section, which consists of the data of the housing itself, with the first two questions being filled by the censist, the C section, which consists of two questions identifying the people living in the housing, and the D section, which asks about the personal information of the residents of the housing.^[13]

The census was translated into six languages aside from Spanish: Mapudungun, English, French, German, Portuguese and Haitian Creole.^[14]

In late August 2017, the preliminary results of the census were published, showing a population of 17,574,003 people between 6,499,355 homes (or approximately 2.7 people per home), a 5.6% increase in population since the 2012 census.^[15]