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2010 World Population and
Housing Census Programme
United Nations Statistics Division
Demographic Statistics Section
United Nations CensusInfo User Application Training Workshop,
Cairo, Egypt, 11-13 October 2010
Overview of Presentation
 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme
 Activities to assist countries in planning and conducting
censuses
 Guidelines, technical materials
 Seminars, workshops, national training and advisory
missions
 2010 World Census Programme Resource Center
 CensusInfo software for disseminating census data
United Nations CensusInfo User Application Training Workshop,
Cairo, Egypt, 11-13 October 2010
2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
 Approved by the Statistical Commission at its
36th session in 2005 and adopted by the
United Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) by its resolution A/2005/13
 Recognize population and housing censuses
as one of the main sources of data for
effective development planning and objective
decision-making
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Three essential goals are:
1. To agree on international principles and
recommendations to conduct a census
2. To facilitate countries in conducting census
at least once during the period 2005-2014
3. To assist countries to disseminate census
results in a timely manner
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Goal 1: Develop international census guidelines and technical material
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UNSD activities to develop international census
guidelines and technical materials
 Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing
Censuses, Rev. 2
 Handbooks and technical reports:
 Handbook on Census Management for Population and
Housing Censuses
 Handbook on Geospatial Infrastructure in support of
Census activities
 Handbook on Population and Housing Census Editing, Rev.1
 Technical report on Census Data Capture Methodology
 Post Enumeration Surveys: Operational guidelines
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Goal 2: Facilitate countries in conducting censuses during the
2010 round
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125 countries will have undertaken a census by the end of 2010
7 countries have not yet planned a census
Major problems or needs for assistance:
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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
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UNSD activities to help countries plan and conduct
censuses
Training workshops on technical issues in census-taking
Expert group meetings
Advisory missions
Study visits
Development and maintenance of a Resource Centre on the
internet
 Development of a software for census data dissemination Census Info
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UNSD Regional workshops on census activities
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International standards
Census management
Cartography
Technologies for mapping and data processing
Data capture and data editing
Census Evaluation and Post Enumeration Surveys
Census data dissemination and analysis
CensusInfo software as a tool for disseminating census data
21 workshops to strengthen technical capacity of NSOs
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UNSD Expert Group Meetings and National Training
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Expert Group Meetings
 Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing
Censuses, Rev. 2 (2 meetings)
 Census mapping and use of geographical information
systems (2 meetings)
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National training
 Strengthen technical capacity of countries on data analysis
and dissemination
 Assisting countries on using CensusInfo software
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UNSD advisory missions on:
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Census planning and management
Large-scale national sample surveys related with census
Cartography
Questionnaire design and instructions for field staff
Pretests and pilot census
Quality assurance
Post enumeration survey
Data processing and editing
Data evaluation
Data dissemination
Data analysis
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Goal 3:To assist countries to disseminate
census results in a timely manner
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Inadequate data dissemination and analysis was
generally a weakness of previous census rounds
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UNSD activities to assist countries to
disseminate census results
 Project on strengthening national capacity to analyse,
present and disseminate data for evidence-based policy
making
 National Seminars on Census Data Analysis
 Analytical thematic reports
 Regional seminars on dissemination and analysis of data
 Development of a software for census data
dissemination: CensusInfo
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Resource Center
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/census2010.htm
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Resource Center
 Provide information on census activities in the world:
 Monitoring census taking in countries and publishing
a monthly “census clock”
 Publishing “Census News” on census activities
 Publishing a Newsletter on recent and upcoming
census-related events
 Supporting activities (seminars, workshops...)
conducted by different organizations
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Resource Center (contd.)
 Resource center on methodology and best practices in
censuses: Census Knowledge Base containing -
 P&R, Handbooks and guidelines
 Good practices: papers provided by countries or
other experts from seminars, etc.
 Thematic pages on: cartography, data processing, data
editing, census evaluation, CensusInfo, etc.
 Post on web questionnaires used in national censuses
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CensusInfo project
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Development of a software for census data dissemination:
CensusInfo
 Developed by UNSD in partnership with UNFPA and UNICEF
to disseminate census results
 Officially launched in February 2009 at the 40th session of
the Statistical Commission
 Available on-line for free
Activities to assist countries for CensusInfo
 Regional workshops
 Onsite technical support to assist/improve technical
capacity of countries to adopt the CensusInfo software
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Main features of CensusInfo
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a tool to disseminate population and housing census results on
the web and on CD-ROM
presents indicators with map and graph facilities by date of
census and different geographic levels up to small geographic
area
includes census topics and a suggested list of data and
indicators with accompanying metadata
can be customized for country-specific data and indicators
generates user-defined tables, graphs, maps and reports
can import data from other software applications
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Proposed list of data and indicators for
CensusInfo
In order to help countries set up their own list for the national
CensusInfo
 Census tables/indicators with accompanying metadata are
derived from the core topics given in “United Nations Principles
and Recommendations for Population and Housing Census, Rev
2.” by UNSD
 Proposed tables/indicators can be disseminated at national,
regions, provinces, districts and small geographic units
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Census Topics
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Metadata for the tables/indicators
 Metadata includes descriptive information about the
tables/indicators
 Categories:
 Definition
 Classification
 Method of computation
 Geographical breakdown
 Comments and limitations
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CensusInfo website
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Census topics and a suggested tables/indicators with
accompanying metadata
Manuals, materials of regional workshops, technical support,
National applications
Global CensusInfo
Available at
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010
_PHC/CensusInfo/index.htm
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CensusInfo website
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THANK YOU …..
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