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2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme

2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme. United Nations Statistics Division. 2000 round of P&H censuses. 27 countries didn’t undertake census or produced equivalent information Mainly in Africa Political situation (conflicts...) Funding issues Technical issues:

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2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme

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  1. 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme United Nations Statistics Division

  2. 2000 round of P&H censuses • 27 countries didn’t undertake census or produced equivalent information • Mainly in Africa • Political situation (conflicts...) • Funding issues • Technical issues: • Inadequate planning and management • Lack of skilled staff... • Quality concerns for some censuses of the 2000 round • Cartography coverage • Coverage of enumeration • Scanning, outsourcing • Insufficient dissemination • Untimely release of data • Insufficient planning and preparations

  3. 2010 World Census Programme • The three essential goals are: • to agree on international principles and recommendations to conduct a census • to facilitate countries in conducting censuses during the period 2005-2014 • to assist countries to disseminate census results in a timely manner

  4. Goal 1: Revision of the Principles and Recommendations for P&H censuses • Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Rev. 2 adopted by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2007 and available on UNSD website • Revision refers to: • Emphasis on production of outputs for evidence-based decision making (output orientation) • Introducing recommended tabulations • Acknowledging alternative approachs • Updating definitions, concepts and classifications • Introducing new core topics

  5. Goal 2: Facilitate countries in conducting censuses during the 2010 round • 49 countries will have undertaken a census by the end of 2007 • 41 countries have not yet planned a census • Major problems or needs for assistance: • Funding • Preparation and planning • Cartography • Management and quality assurance • Data capture, especially scanning • Data processing • Dissemination and analysis • Evaluation, Post enumeration surveys • Others, including political problems

  6. 2010 Census Dates* by Year *As planned by countries

  7. 2010 Census Dates* - Africa *As planned by countries

  8. 2010 Census Date* for non participating countries in the 2000 round *As planned by countries

  9. 2.1 - Partnership • UNSD develops strong partnership with UNFPA, UN Regional Commissions and other International or Regional Organizations: • To avoid duplication • To monitor and collect country needs • To exchange information • To train • To provide technical assistance

  10. 2.2 - Monitoring Monitoring country activities related to census-taking Questionnaire sent out to NSOs Contact list of census managers Regular update Coordination with UNFPA and Regional Commissions Disseminating information on census activities via the 2010 World Population and Housing Censuses Programme Website and Newsletter

  11. 2.3 - Advocacy • Workshops on Advocacy for Census in collaboration with UNFPA: • Cape Verde (April 2007), Panama (September 2007) • African Symposia on Statistical Development • 2006 Cape Town, 2007 Kigali, Dec. 2007 Accra • Create a momentum for the participation of each African country in the 2010 round • Mobilization of high level policy makers • Forward information collected on country needs to donors

  12. 2.4 – Develop technical guidelines • Principles and Recommendations • Handbooks, Guidelines on topics pertaining to different stages of the census: • Census mapping and use of GIS (2008) • Measuring International Migration • Economic characteristics in population censuses • DataEditing (2008) • Guidelines on reporting on census activities (2007) • Data Dissemination • Evaluation, Post Enumeration Surveys • Document new methodologies and elaborate on preconditions and portability

  13. 2.5 – Training • Training workshops on topical technical issues in census-taking, following the census process: • 2006: Principles & Recommendations: WS in Mozambique, Mali • 2007: Census Cartography and Management: 4 WS in Zambia, Thailand, Trinidad, Morocco • 2008: data processing: • Data capture (internet, scanning, PAD, inc. outsourcing) • Data editing • Quality assurance, risk management • 2009 and later: dissemination, analysis, evaluation (PES) • Develop e-training materials available online • Follow-up: implementation, problems faced...

  14. 2.6 – Exchange of experience, advice • Workshops always include country presentations and permit fruitful exchanges • Workshops include practical exercises • Emphasis on the practical use of technology or methodology but also on pre-requisites (Eg. Use of GIS) • Exchange of methodological and practical documents (e.g. quality plans, outsourcing contracts) • Census questionnaires database: • Questionnaires • Database of the text of the questions organised by topic • Support study visits • Technical assistance missions (Interregional adviser)

  15. 2.7 – Provide tools • CsPro: partnership with US Census Bureau to customize CsPro with topics of the P&R : • Description of variables, classifications • Editing procedures • CensusInfo: partnership with UNICEF and UNFPA to provide a dissemination software based on DevInfo with new functionalities: • Cross tabulation • Mapping facilities • Standard result sheets (tables + graphs, to provide standard results at any geographical level) • Customizable by country • Support other free tools (Redatam...)

  16. Goal 3: Assist countries in their efforts to disseminate census results • Inadequate data dissemination and analysis was a weakness of the previous round of censuses, especially in Africa • Handbook on datadissemination and analysis • Workshops on datadissemination and analysis • Development of a software for census datadissemination: CensusInfo

  17. 2010 World Census Programme Resource Centerhttp://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/default.htm

  18. 2010 World Census Programme Resource Center • Provide information on census activities in the world: • Census taking in the countries • Supporting activities (seminars, workshops...) conducted by different organizations (UNSD, UNFPA, UN Regional Commissions, Eurostat...) • Resource center on methodology and best practices of censuses: • P&R, Handbooks and guidelines • Best practices: papers provided by countries orother experts (seminars or others)

  19. 2010 World Census Programme Resource Center • Rationale: • Census takers are very busy and don’t have time to look at colleagues’ websites or don’t know where to look • NSOs websites are often public-oriented and offer little technical documentation • Census takers need to keep abreast of the methodological and practical improvements

  20. 2010 World Census Programme Resource Center • Success factors: • Build a network to work in collaboration with all the partners (International and Regional Organizations and NSOs) • Create a mailing list of participants • Pro-active participation of census managers to provide information and documentation

  21. 2010 World Census Programme Thank you

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