United Nations Statistics Division
Demographic Statistics Section
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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
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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
 Approved by the Statistical Commission at its
36 th 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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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
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To agree on international principles and recommendations to conduct a census
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To facilitate countries in conducting census at least once during the period 2005-2014
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To assist countries to disseminate census results in a timely manner
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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
Goal 1: Develop international census guidelines and technical material
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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
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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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
Goal 2: Facilitate countries in conducting censuses during the
2010 round
 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:
 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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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
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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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
UNSD Regional workshops on census activities
 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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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
UNSD Expert Group Meetings and National Training
 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)
 National training
 Strengthen technical capacity of countries on data analysis and dissemination
 Assisting countries on using CensusInfo software
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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
UNSD advisory missions on:
 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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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
Goal 3:To assist countries to disseminate census results in a timely manner
 Inadequate data dissemination and analysis was generally a weakness of previous census rounds
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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
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
 Activities to assist countries for CensusInfo o Regional workshops o Onsite technical support to assist/improve technical capacity of countries to adopt the CensusInfo software
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http://unstats.un.org/unsd/census2010.htm
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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
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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2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
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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