Transcript UNSD Presentation: Introduction to CensusInfo

United Nations
Statistics Division
National CensusInfo Training, Jakarta, Indonesia
14 – 18 March 2011
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What is CensusInfo?
CensusInfo is a software tool to disseminate
census data on the web and CD-ROM
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Why CensusInfo?
Need
 Dissemination has been the weakest point of population
and housing censuses
 Importance of disseminating census data
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Why CensusInfo?
Initiative
 Census Data Dissemination as one of three main goals of
the
“2010 World Programme on
Population and Housing Census”
 Assist countries in their efforts to disseminate census
results in a timely manner
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Why CensusInfo?
Objectives
 Develop a software solution to facilitate the dissemination
of census results fulfilling following minimum criteria:
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Easy to implement and easy to use
Free to use
Dissemination of census data at any geographical level
Customization for country-specific requirements
Dissemination on the web and CD-ROM
 Software based on the latest DevInfo databasse
technology, version 6.0
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Main features of CensusInfo
 CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software
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Main features of CensusInfo
 CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software
 Disseminates census results at any geographical level
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Statistics Division
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Statistics Division
Main features of CensusInfo
 CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software
 Disseminates census results at any geographical level
 Provides a suggested list of census topics, data and
indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN
recommendations)
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Statistics Division
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Main features of CensusInfo
 CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software
 Disseminates census results at any geographical level
 Provides a suggested list of census topics, data and
indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN
recommendations)
 Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs
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Statistics Division
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Statistics Division
Main features of CensusInfo
 CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software
 Disseminates census results at any geographical level
 Provides a suggested list of census topics, data and
indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN
recommendations)
 Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs
 Supports to disseminate census data with multiple
languages
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Statistics Division
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Statistics Division
Main features of CensusInfo
 CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software
 Disseminates census results at any geographical level
 Provides a suggested list of census topics, data and
indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN
recommendations)
 Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs
 Supports to disseminate census data with multiple
languages
 Generates user-defined tables, maps, graphs and reports
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Main features of CensusInfo
 CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software
 Disseminates census results at any geographical level
 Provides a suggested list of census topics, data and
indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN
recommendations)
 Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs
 Supports to disseminate census data with multiple
languages
 Generates user-defined tables, maps, graphs and reports
 Provides standard profile reports by geographic units
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Statistics Division
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Main features of CensusInfo
 CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software
 Disseminates census results at any geographical level
 Provides a suggested list of census topics, data and
indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN
recommendations)
 Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs
 Supports to disseminate census data with multiple
languages
 Generates user-defined tables, maps, graphs and reports
 Provides standard profile reports by geographic units
 Allows importing data from other software applications
such as CSPro, Redatam, SAS and SPSS
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UNSD activities to assist countries
adapting CensusInfo
 Regional workshops
 National Training on site
 Basic Training
 Advanced Training
 User Application Training
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unstats.un.org/unsd/census2010.htm
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www.censusinfo.net
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