The 2014 Population and Housing Census - the country’s first national census in 30 years – was undertaken by the Ministry of Immigration and Population with technical support from UNFPA between 30th March and 10th April 2014. 110,000 enumerators visited over 12 million households to gather data to provide social, economic and demographic characteristics of people and households for the purpose of on-going reforms, development planning and good governance. The results will be made public progressively as each stage of analysis is completed. The data will be used by the Government, universities, research centres, civil society, development partners and other data users to develop appropriate policies and programmes for the improvement of living standards of the people in Myanmar.