You don't need to provide a mobile phone number for the census. The census mainly investigates some information about individuals. The seventh census includes items such as name, citizenship number, gender, age, nationality, education level, industry, occupation, migration and mobility, marriage and childbirth, death and housing situation.

The census adopts the principle of registration according to the current residence, and everyone must register at the current residence. If the census object does not live in the domicile, the domicile shall register the corresponding information.

Extended data:

In the process of conducting a thorough investigation, the census taker should send a letter to all households in the area of responsibility to conduct census propaganda, ask the households what kind of registration method they want to choose, inform them of the relevant arrangements for household registration, and remind them to make corresponding preparations. For households who choose to participate in online self-reporting, the enumerator should provide the account information used by the household immediately, and explain the reporting process and matters needing attention.

The census taker uses electronic collection equipment to check the buildings and housing units in the census area one by one, grasp the population and living conditions, and compile the Household Name Book.

Urumqi Municipal Government —— Work Guide for the Seventh Population Census in Urumqi