Bogotá and its surrounding region are inhabited by close to 10 million people. The city itself is divided in 20 administrative mayoralties and some of the surrounding municipalities show stark differences between their rural and urban areas. While the Colombian national institute for statistics generates valuable data, the aggregation level at which the data is presented does not fully represent the variation among the aforementioned areas. Even more, as Colombia presents high level of inequality and its cities show patterns of spatial segregation, median statistics could hide local or hiperlocalized social problems.

The city government intends to apply the Encuesta Multipropósito (Multipurpose survey) in partnership with the Colombian National Institute of Statistics (DANE) during the first semester of 2025. In order to achieve that objective, both entities have been working together for the better part of the last year in order to design the final questionary, define the representative areas, calculate operational costs, include extra municipalities, set the sampling strategies, among other administrative and technical issues. The objective is to have first available results at the end of 2025.

It should be noted that because it is the city’s purpose to have representation at a very small geographical scale, the whole operation is very sample intensive.