Más de mil incidentes en el Censo Nacional 2025: testimonios de censistas exponen la necesidad de más seguridad durante su labor

The National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) has documented an alarming series of incidents, including harassment, attempted sexual assaults, and physical attacks against more than a thousand census takers—most of them women—during the data collection phase of the 2025 National Census. This situation highlights the operational risks inherent in fieldwork and underscores the urgent need to strengthen safety protocols and institutional responses to the vulnerabilities faced by public data collectors. Despite these security challenges, the integrity of the census process is critical for national development, as the collected data serve as the empirical foundation for precise public policy planning. Without this up-to-date information, the State would lack the capacity to equitably allocate resources in health, education, and infrastructure, potentially leading to misallocations and neglect of specific regional needs. This article is particularly relevant to the open data context, as it illustrates the tension between large-scale data collection and the protection of the workers who generate that information. It reinforces the ethical imperative to ensure the safety of the human actors involved in producing open data and demonstrates how the quality and integrity of public data depend directly on the secure environment in which they are collected, thereby linking data governance with institutional social responsibility.

Source: rpp.pe
Published on 2025-10-03

Más de mil incidentes en el Censo Nacional 2025: testimonios de censistas exponen la necesidad de más seguridad durante su labor

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