1 million 2 hundred thousand 300, Damn lost my place suppose better start again, or maybe not

So the long awaited census result landed in the papers today, that is long awaited not eagerly... Anyway there appears to be a bit of a major anomaly or maybe it's just the Toady getting its facts wrong again.

The Toady gives the population in 2003 in Dubai as 1204000, however Gulf news gives the 2005 population as 1200309.

Now it is pretty clear the population of Dubai has not gone down, the pressure on housing for everything from labour camps, through bed spaces to 8 bed villas tells us this, so what is going on?

For the previous census in 2003 the Weasel was visited and duly gave the details, this time no census taker appeared, nowhere in the empty quarter, that the Weasel is aware of, was visited, nor were his several acquaintances in Springtime for Hitler.

Could this be nothing more sinister than pure incompetence from the census taking agency?

Who knows,

Anther interesting ditty here
"Of the total local population, males slightly out-number females. There are 418,057 (50.7 per cent) males against 406,864 (49.3 per cent) females in the country."

There do seem to be a few girls missing there....Not uncommon in this part of the world but then neither is the most likely reason for it, despite protestations to the opposite.