This effort has resulted in improved awareness, especially at the political level, on the need to undertake a census. To date 32 countries have already completed the 2010 round of censuses and 21 have planned to conduct the census before 2015. To achieve the above, the Economic Commission for Africa, in collaboration with the African Development Bank and the African Union, and with strong support from Statistics SA, has assisted countries to build capacity in various areas of census taking. This has taken the form of workshops and expert group meetings on census planning and enumeration; census evaluation and postenumeration survey. Training and technical assistance were also provided to a number of countries on the use of digital techniques for census cartography and data processing.