Thailand Population and Housing
Census 2010
A big challenge in the decade
Rajana Netsaengtip
National Statistical Office ,Thailand
27-29 Nov. 2012 ; Republic of Korea
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Census Objective
To collect basic information on population and living
quarters
To provide data for small administrative units
To measure changes of population and living quarters
over 10 years
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Population Coverage
1. Every Thais citizen who live in Thailand on the
Census date (September 1, 2010)
2. All Thai government officials and their families
who are on diplomatic posts overseas
3. Thais/non-Thais/foreigners, who have their
usual of residence in Thailand but on the
Census date they are temporarily overseas
4. Non-Thais/foreigners who have lived in
Thailand for at least three months by the
Census date except those with diplomatic
posts in Thailand
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Census of Population and Housing 2010
Ministry of Information and Communication Technology
“Everyone is counted in the Census of
Population and Housing 2010 :
A big challenge in the decade”
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Census of Population and Housing 2010
Ministry of Information and Communication Technology
Big challenge because it is a hard work
The Census 2010 was much harder than before
Why?
 Various kind of living residence
 People need more privacy
 Urban people work in day time
 People feel less safe in life and asset
 People fear of thieves and robbers
 People feel less trust in neighborhoods
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Census of Population and Housing 2010
Ministry of Information and Communication Technology
Goal Achievements
• Building cooperation
• Data co-ownership
• Data sharing
Public
Private
Citizen
• Helps on promotion of Census
• A civic duty
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Census Committee
NSO Director General
Census Administration Committee
Census Sub-committee
Consultancy Committee
Questionnaire
and
Instruction
Mapping And
Enumeration
area listing
Public
Relation
Data
Processing
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Census of Population and Housing 2010
: Budget
Budget for the whole project 976.1 Mil Baht
2008
0.5 (mil $)
2009
1.0
2010
30.0
2011
1.5
( 33 mil $)
Questionnaire/Manual
4.3
Training
6.2
Field operation
12.2
Wages for field coordinators 2.3
ICR Device
1.3
Promotion
2.1 + 1
Other
1.6
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Census of Population and Housing 2010
Challenges
1. Improve field operation in big cities
2. Increase local people and organizations
participation
3. Solve the problem on international migration
4. Improve data capturing / processing/
dissemination system
5. Quality Control
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Census
of Population
Housing
Planning
for and
2010
PHC2010:
Challenges
1.Improve Field Operation in big cities
• Multi-modal Collection
• Improve PR (The public information and
education campaign, enhancing public awareness)
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Data Collection
Data collection using (Multi Modal Method)
Census 2010 : the first time that NSO had several
channels for people to fill in their
information
1. Face-to-face interview
2. Self-enumeration
(Drop off and Pick up or mail back)
3. Internet
4. Phone interview
Data collection period
1-30 September 2010 (1-31 October follow up ) 12
Improving PR
Census Campaign
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary
of Thai Population Census
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Census Publicity : Time Line /Roadmap
3 months
June
July
60 days
August
1-30 Sept
Oct
Launch the 2010
Census Project
Are you ready to
be counted?
Start to count
Mopping Up
Census Information
The entire country
Everyone counts
Everyone counts
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Get support from Government
Launched the 2010 Census
by the Prime Minister
Kick Off Day
Census Advertising at the
Government House
‘World Population Day’
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Census Publicity: PR Materials
Wall & Table calendar, Car sticker, etc.
New Year Card
Car sticker
Leaflets/Fact sheet
Shopping
bag
Poster & Standee
Jacket, Cap,
Bag
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Census Publicity : Other activities
Short-film on TV
Radio Broadcasting
Census songs (4 local accents)
Announcement of Census Publicity Campaign
on Letterhead
Published related information for awareness and
participation of all foreigners (through Embassy)
- The Statistic Acts (Thai, English, French, Japanese, Chinese)
- Census Questionnaire
(Thai, English, French, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Japanese)
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Census of Population and Housing 2010:
Challenges (cont’d)
2. Increased Local People and Organizations Participation
• Set up networking (government & private agencies,
community, NGO, Journalist, etc.
• Set up local steering committee at provincial and local
community levels
• Used local volunteers to be enumerators
• Used local community officers to be supervisors
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Got support from Government Agency
Arranged MOU with
government agency
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Bangkok Metropolitan
(2007)
Allied with 8 government
agencies (2008)
(Min.Interior, Min.Labor,
Min.Public health, Min.Education,
Min.Human Development,
Min.Agriculture,
NESDB, Thailand Post)
Set up census
management committee at
provincial level
Consisted of:
Chair
Provincial governor
Committee
Head of govt. division
Representatives from
private/people
NGO representatives
Secretary
Head of PNSO
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Field Officers
72,000 officers
Field operation all over the country within 1 month
In usual area
enumerated by local people
(community volunteers,
municipality officers, teachers, etc)
In special area
enumerated by private agency officers/
government officers…
(condominium, hostel, housing estate,
prison,military camp, etc.)
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Supervisors : at least Bachelor degree
Enumerators : at least secondary school level
Census Publicity in collaboration
with other agencies
Opening of Census
Stamps with Thai
Post Office
Census Poster
Contest for Youth
Meeting & seminars
among networking
(Regional & Central)
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Census of Population and Housing 2010:
Challenges (cont’d)
3. Solved the problem on international migration
• Developed a survey technique and outreach
strategy for incorporating migrant population in
Thailand’s National Census,2010.
: Pilot study under technical assistance in 2008
by World Bank and IOM
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Census of Population and Housing 2010:
Challenges (cont’d)
4. Improved Data Capturing/ Processing & Dissemination
System
• Increased the use of ICR
• Developed more user-friendly system
: Census Info, Data Warehouse
• Published more analytical papers
: collaborate research with academic institutions
• Promoted the use of PHC at national, provincial and
local levels
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Census Data Dissemination and Publication
Data Dissemination
Preliminary report
Advanced report
Final report
Analytical Report
Publication
- Reports, Fact sheet, CD-ROM
- Website: www.nso.go.th and http://popcensus.nso.go.th
- Data Warehouse/ Census Info
- Geographical Information System (GIS)
Provision of Census Micro Data
1) General users: the 1% sample of anonymized micro
data is available for general purpose.
2) Specific-requested users: NSO considered the requests
on a case by case basis. The special requests are for
example:
- the construction of poverty line
- the production of population projection
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Census of Population and Housing 2010:
Challenges (cont’d)
5. Quality Control
1) Intensive training: theoretical and practical ( 4 days)
2) Field supervisors monitored the data collection process
- Re-interviewing (2 households/EA)
- Field editing to check for completeness
and consistency
3) Center for Census Operation Follow-up
4) Questionnaire scanning by using ICR at each province,
then a centralized editing was done by expert team
(Manual and Machine Editing)
5) Post Enumeration Survey (PES)
(Coverage error; 4% for population, 2% for housing)
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Future Direction for Next Census
1) Try to use more of administrative data
2) Consider how to collect the data of the
following issue:
- It is hard to count people who move to the rental
rooms / residence but did not register for residency in
accordance with current living place.
- It is hard to locate the homeless people and
count for one time.
- Some people have more than one dwelling /
living place, it is needed to make decision for the most
appropriate living place and count for one time.
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Thank You for Your Attention
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