Thiruvananthapuram: The state will start the first phase of data collection for Census 2020 from May 1 to 30 this year.
Chief Secretary Tom Jose told District Collectors at meeting here that National Population Register would not be taken up in Kerala.
Where the first phase includes house listing and house census, the second is for population enumeration starting from February 9 to 28, 2021.
The government has approved a list of 31 questions for the house listing exercise.