Census Data Capture MALAYSIA

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Census Data CaptureMALAYSIA

• Population Census 2000 vs
• Population Census 2010 (proposed solution)

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Topics (DATA CAPTURE)
1. INTRODUCTION
2. DATA CAPTURE DATA PROCESSING
3. CENSUS 2000 DATA CAPTURE
4. DATA CAPTURE STRATEGY
5. ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
6. CENSUS 2010 PROPOSED DATA CAPTURE
7. CENSUS 2010 DATA CAPTURE STRATEGY
8. ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
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Data Capture Introduction

• Data Capture have become important module of
  data processing for all types of census and
  survey activities
• Todays National Statistical Office (NSO) improve
  the quality of the output from census data by
  improving their data capture system
• Good Data Capture System only can help NSO with
  effective and efficient way to produce quality
  data from census/survey activities

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Data Capture - Data Processing

• Data Capture is one of the most important module
  in the Data Processing Process
• Good Data Processing System designs should
• Deliver services requested by users
• Deliver acceptable throughput and response times
• Be within budget and maximise cost efficiencies
• Be reliable and high availability
• Be expandable without major redesign
• Be manageable by maintenance and support staff
• Be well documented

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CENSUS 2000 - MALAYSIA

• Data Capture (DC)
• 1 Data Capture CENSUS 2000
• 1.1 Data Capture
• - Manual Data Entry
• - IMPS - CENTRY
• - 13 Processing Centres
• - Data capture Verification
• - 762 Staff employed for data capture with 2
  shifts
• - (6000-8000) keystroke/hour

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CENSUS 2000 DATA CAPTURE STRATEGY

• 1.2 Data capture Strategy
• - 2 Stages
• - Stage 1
• Primary variables For Preliminary tables
• - Stage 2
• Occupation Code
• Industry Code
• Migration Code
• - Supervisor
• Key ID
• - Operator
• Key Detail record

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CENSUS 2000ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

• 1.3 Advantages Disadvantages
• 1.3.1 Advantages
• - Easy to use
• - development
• - training
• - data capture
• - Computers can be used for other projects
• after the Pop. Census
• 1.3.2 Disadvantages
• - Training issues
• - High turnover of staff at certain centres
• - Replacement of pc
• - delay delivery of replacement by vendors
• - Different type of pc
• - installation issues

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CENSUS 2010 DATA CAPTURE

• 2. Data Capture Census 2010
• 2.1 Data Capture
• 2.1.1 ICR ( Eyes Hand Readsoft
  International)
• - 6 Processing Centres
• - 188 Staff employed for data capture
• with 2 shifts
• 2.1.1 Online for Urban areas (eSurvey)
• - Web server Apache
• - Database My Sql ver 5.1.26
• - secure socket layer (ssl) connection

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CENSUS 2010 DATA CAPTURE STRATEGY

• 2.2 Data capture Strategy
• - 2 Stages
• - Stage 1
• Primary variables For Preliminary tables
• - Stage 2
• Occupation Code
• Industry Code
• Migration Code
• Key Detail record

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CENSUS 2010 ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

• 2.3 Advantages Disadvantages
• Advantages
• - less staff
• - turnover of staff can be easily handled
• - less transcription error
• Disadvantages
• - require more training
• - high cost of equipment and software
• - maintenance of scanner

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CENSUS 2010 DATA PROCESSING
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• Discussions
• Questions and Answers

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