Census 2010
Census of Population,
Housing,Buildings,Establishments
and Agriculture
Huda Ebrahim Al Shrooqi
Central Informatics Organization
1
Census
2010
Why
‫؟‬2010
UN Recommendations
GCC Decision of the
Supreme Council
Decision of the Supreme Council
At its twenty-second - Muscat 2001
Census standardized for the GCC in 2010
Decision of the Supreme Council At its twenty-second Muscat 2010
Supreme Council of the Gulf, has considered the recommendations of the
Ministerial Council at its eighty-first preparatory round approving the
recommendation of the Committee for Planning and Development at its tenth
meeting on the standardization of time periods for general censuses in the
countries of the Council, and to achieve the integration of statistical activities of the
GCC countries and the cost savings, and has decided that:
“Each of the Member States should conduct census in 2010, and standardize
periods of general censuses to be held in every ten years. ”
Census date in Bahrain
Methodology
Census
2010
The Scope
Why Administrative
Records??
Census data sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
From Administrative
Records
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
Census date in Bahrain……….
The first Gulf state & The fourth Arab state
to have census
1941 1950 1959
1965 1971
1981 1991 2001 2010
...
Census date in Bahrain
Methodology
The Scope
Why Administrative
Records??
Make use of the database of the Central Population Registry
Census data sources
and of various government agencies to extract the required
Quality in
Administrative
Records
data for the general census. Estimates for the indicators
which are not available in the database are obtained
through a sample survey .
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
Census date in Bahrain
Methodology
The Scope

Population

Housing

Building

Establishment

Agriculture
Why Administrative
Records??
Census data sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
Census date in Bahrain
Methodology
The Scope
Why
Administrative
Records??
Census data sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
Census date in Bahrain
Methodology
The Scope
The availability of the infrastructure of database
•
Central Population Register was established in 1984 Based on 1981 census data.
•
The establishment of the Governmental network in 1994.
•
Linking more than 300 government websites with government network.
•
Placement of security systems and ensuring confidentiality in the government network .
•
Decision of the Council of Ministers to Standardize the instruments, concepts, definitions
and classifications in 2009.
•
Determine the ownership of the data in different sectors.
•
Readiness of the Systems in the government sectors .
•
Why
Administrative
Records??
Develop a mechanism to update the population Register data as part of the working
procedures in government sectors.
Census data sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
Census Data Sources- Ministries
Commercial
Registration
Nationality,
Passport &
Residency
M/O
Justice
Social
Insurance &
Pension
Electricity
& Water
Authority
M/O
Health
Municipalities
Central
Population
Register
M/O Social
Development
M/O industry
& Commerce
…
Labour
LMRA
Market
Authority
Geographic
Information
System
Census
Housing
and
buildings
Agriculture
Tabulation
Census date in Bahrain
Methodology
Central Informatics organisation
(CIO)
Basic data of the population
(Age,Sex, Name, Address, Religion…etc)
Ministry of Justice
Marital Status
Ministry of Health
Nationality, Passports and
Residence
Social Insurance Organization
Labour Market Regulatory
Authority
Nationality
Duration of residence
Manpower
Establishments
Economic Activity of establishments
Ministry of industry & Commerce


Ministry of Education


Ministry of Municipalities and
Ministry of Electricity
Why Administrative
Records??
Vital Statistics
Disabilities
Ministry of Social Development
The Scope
Enrollment
Education Level
Educational Attainment
The type of occupancy and ownership of
buildings , housing and Establishments
Census data
sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
 Establishments
Census
The Scope
Central
Informatics
organisation
(CIO)
Ministry of
industry &
Commerce
Noncommercial
records
Commercial
records
Commercial
records and Noncommercial
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Methodology
Why Administrative
Records??
Workers
Census data
sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Establishments
frame
Tables
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
Census date in Bahrain
Methodology
The Scope
Why Administrative
Records??
•
Compared to the databases with the census requirements of the
United Nations, General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council
and the League of Arab States.
•
Determine the variables to be completed in the census database.
•
Finalise definitions and classifications between sources.
•
Update the database of census data from the databases of
government sectors on a regular basis.
•
Revise and create the Central Population Registry database, after
obtaining the updated information from other Ministries.
Census data
sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
Census date in Bahrain
Methodology
The Scope
Why Administrative
Records??
•
Retrieve the data from the revised Central Population Registry database .
•
Completion of the census data from other government sectors.
•
sample survey in households for variables that needs to be supplemented (by
telephone communications and field visits)
•
Extraction and validation of results.
•
Putting the census in public arena.
Census data
sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
The Mechanism
1
Create a population
record database
action to implement the census
2
Programs/ collaboration with
other data agencies.
...
pilot run
Readiness of the hardware
27 / 12 / 2009
27 / 01 / 2010
27 / 02 / 2010
27 / 03 / 2010
Survey Management
Data Management & reports
population
record
population record database
3
Census day
27 / 04 / 2010
Census databases
publish census results
November 2010
5
Census
2010
Validating the
census data and
preparation of
sample
4
Revise and create the
Population Registry database
Beginning
Analyze the data
census team
Operations
Central Population
Registry
Operations
Retrieve the
data
Central
Population
team
Copy of the data
Validated
data
General
Errors
Yes
Updated population
registry data
automatically
No
Can be
corrected
in the office
No
Yes
Updated population
registry data manually
Records
team
Team field
Verification
of the data
Vital records
Census team
Objective
• Collect information required for the census, in respect of the
data which are not available in administrative records.
•
Evaluation of data on household size, current employment
status & highest educational level achieved for their
accuracy.
Steps
• About 15000 families has been selected from the Central
Population Registry database as a framework for a sample
survey that covered Bahraini, non-Bahraini and collective
households.
• Each governorate was a stratum. Samples were
proportionally allocated to each substratum of Bahraini, nonBahraini and collective households.
•
Samples were selected in a systematic manner after
arranging the households as per their size.
Census date in Bahrain
Methodology
The Scope
Why Administrative
Records??
Census data
sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
•
15,000
Household 3(Technical Support,
Chief of Operations
Quality 2
Systems development
Customer Services)
Hotline 4
Director of the call
Centre
2supervisor
Coordinator
field work
Registered field 2
of the call
Centre
supervisors field
35
28 staff for call
center
Call center
   
280 Researchers
140 teams
4 teams for each
supervisor
Field works
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Methodology
The Scope
1.
•
•
Indicate that the household composition surveyed is different from the
data base on the day of enumeration. Some cases were found to be like:
Addition of servants who were not issued with a personal number.
Some individuals move to another address housing, without informing &
changing the address with the CPR.
2. Show that the number of households in house as per the survey is
different from the number of households in actual census .
3. Collective households have been changed to private households.
4. Show that some of the characteristics of education and the workforce for
some individuals in survey is different from what the actual census is
recorded such as employees or temporary staff who have not been modified
their records for the time of enumeration.
Why Administrative
Records??
Census data
sources
Quality in
Administrative
Records
Mechanism Action of
the Census
Sample Household
survey
The Mechanism of
Action
Observations Obtained
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