Astana. February 26. Kazakhstan Today - The city administration of the South Kazakhstan oblast is carrying out pilot population census from February 25 - March 6, 2008 on the territory of Turkestan, the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan informs. According to the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan, pilot census is carried out within the limits of realization of the plan of measures of the national population census of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2009, approved by the government decree of Kazakhstan of November 28, 2007 № 1138. "The purpose of carrying out of pilot census consists in revealing and correcting possible lacks or difficulties at its important stages - from registration till data processing," the text underlines.