Since the 2013 General Census of Population and Housing, Agriculture and Livestock, carried out with electronic data collection thanks to the combined support of Brazil and Cape Verde, Senegal has received many requests from countries in the West African sub-region (Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania, among others) and Central Africa (Gabon) to draw on its experience. It has also carried out missions to some of these countries to support the technical teams in preparing their census. This exchange of experience is based on a checklist of the main provisions to be complied with for a successful census with electronic data collection.

The implementation of RGPH-5 is part of the third National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (SNDS-III, 2019-2023). Thus, in its capacity as coordinator of the National Statistical System (SSN) and in accordance with the principles and recommendations of the United Nations, ANSD has opted to integrate the basic module of the agriculture and livestock census into RGPH-5, in order to facilitate the preparation of the sampling frame for agricultural holdings.

In addition, with a view to making quality data available to users in a timely fashion, Senegal is pursuing its drive to modernize data collection by opting for an entirely digital census.