Shafaq News / "Many of the ethnic components and political parties wary of the general census." Planning ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi said to "Shafaq News". Ministry of Planning, confirmed earlier, that the continuing differences between the political blocs  is still holding up the census, expressing its full readiness to conduct the census if the announcement of schedule, indicating that it "seeks to hold the census end of the year 2011", and revealed a move extensively During the month of September in this area.
"The Ministry of Planning came a long way in the process of counting and numbering and, but the interval of time that can accommodate every day for the census, make it necessary to update the counting  and numbering process, and that need additional efforts." Hindawi said .
It is said that the last census was held in Iraq in 1997 and showed a population of about 19 million people in all regions except the provinces of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where officials estimated their numbers then three million people.
Several groups, opposed the census in the disputed areas such as the city of Kirkuk, home of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, which contains large oil fields, as well as disputed areas between Arabs and Kurds in Mosul, and with populations belonging to diverse religions and doctrines such as the Muslims and Asides, Shabak, Christians, in anticipation that the census may reveal the composition of the population that would eliminate the political ambitions.