A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses.
Tanzania like other countries in the world conducts census after every ten year. August this year Tanzania will carry out its census. However regardles these positive government's efforts at present there are some groups that illegalise the procedure. And those groups are at large muslim groups for example Uamsho group in Zanzibar.
Now formally today the Muft of Tanzania sheikh Isaa bin Simba formalised the statement from the Muslims Committee Tanzania (BAKWATA) that every person in the country is obliged to cooperate and participate in the processes of the up comming census effectively under the laws of the country and their commitee is accepting, legalising and urging Tanzanians to participate in the coming census since the government's aim is neither at knowing the number of muslims nor tribes.