The areas and periods of census shall be prescribed by municipal and county (city) governments, and shall be submitted to the central competent authority for examination and filing.

The date of census shall be stipulated by municipal and county (city) governments.

When making census, the household registration offices shall issue household labels according to the sequence of households in each Neighborhood, marking the village and door plate No. of household. From the day of census, the offices shall assign personnel to proceed with the census in the households one by one, and fill out the census papers. The census papers, which may be substituted with the household registration application forms, shall be filled out by the census personnel, but shall be signed or affixed with chops of the heads of households or the agents of the persons who receive census. For the common business households, the papers may be issued to them for filling out.

The census shall be conducted on household basis. The households shall be grouped according to village, neighborhood and door plate No.

After completing the census and re-checking, the household registration office shall process the household registration immediately, and produce result statistics, which shall be submitted to the central competent authority.

When processing initial household registration in a domiciliary registration area, the household registration office shall input the information obtained from census into computer system, with copies bound into volume by village sent to the municipal or county (city) government for examination and filing.

All forms and lists for processing census and household registrations shall be produced by the household registration offices or municipal and county (city) governments. In any alteration made to the entries of the census or household registration forms and lists there shall be affixed with the chop of the person who makes the alteration.

For the census and household registration, there shall check and record the household in which existing residents have resided or are expected to reside for three and more months.

When the household registration office makes the census on every household and every member of household, the chief of each village and neighborhood, as well as the clerks of each village and policemen of each police precinct shall provide the office with assistance.

Any person refuses to accept checking or correction of the entries of household registration without any due reason, the household registration office shall notify him/her to make them up when he/she applies for household registrations or various certificates.

When verifying educational degrees pursuant to Article 72 of this Act, the household registration office shall make an entry of such a background in accordance with the register of graduates' educational degrees furnished by middle schools and higher, the proof documents surrendered by the parties concerned, results that household registration personnel have obtained verbally, or data provided by related authorities. When making an entry of educational background as mentioned above, the titles of schools and departments may be omitted.

The forms, methods and dates of production of household statistics shall be stipulated by the central competent authority.