Over 500,000 Poles have completed the National Census online since it was inaugurated at the beginning of April.

The National Census, which went online on 1 April, has so far not caused too much trouble for Polish Internet users, although some remarks have been made about the system, the Central Statistics Office has announced.

“The problems mentioned are mostly glitches,” Artur Satora from the Central Statistics Office told Polish Radio, adding that “this is a massive undertaking and not everyone can use the system at once, so we are asking people to be patient.”

This is the first National Census which respondents can reply to on the Internet. The last Census was undertaken in 2002, before Poland joined the European Union. (jb)