Overview of CensusInfo as Tool for Dissemination of Census Data

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Overview of CensusInfo as Tool for Dissemination
of Census Data
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Content of Presentation

• 2010 World Population and Housing Census
  Programme
• What is CensusInfo
• Main features of CensusInfo
• How to define census indicators
• Proposed tables/indicators for CensusInfo
• Reports from CensusInfo
• Development of the CensusInfo
• CensusInfo website
• Global CensusInfo

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2010 World Population Housing Census Programme

• Approved by the Statistical Commission at its
  36th session in 2005 and adopted by the United
  Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) by
  its resolution A/2005/13.
• Recognizes 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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• Three essential goals are
• To agree on international principles and
  recommendations to conduct a census
• To facilitate countries in conducting census at
  least once during the period 2005-2014
• To assist countries to disseminate census results
  in a timely manner

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What is CensusInfo ?

• CensusInfo is a software package for
  disseminating census data on CD-ROM and on the
  web
• Developed by UNSD in partnership with UNICEF and
  UNFPA
• Officially launched in February 2009 at the 40th
  session of the Statistical Commission
• Available on-line for free

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Objective of CensusInfo

• to disseminate the main tables and indicators
  on population and housing characteristics for the
  country as a whole and for geographical
  areas/administrative units that can be used for
  planning, management and evaluation of
  development programs

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Main features of CensusInfo

• a tool to disseminate population and housing
  census results on the web and on CD-ROM
• presents indicators with map and graph facilities
  by date of census and different geographic
  levels, from regions to small geographic area
• includes census topics and a suggested list of
  census tables/indicators with accompanying
  metadata
• customized to meet country-specific census
  indicators
• generates user-defined tables, graphs, maps and
  reports
• import data from other software applications

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How to define census tables/indicators

• Define indicators by taking into account
• Main results of the census on the smallest
  geographical level considering national
  priorities and international comparability
• Monitoring indicators of international, national
  and sub-national development programs
• Needs of the related national organizations and
  principal users (e.g. ministries, state planning
  office, local authorities, private sector
  organizations)

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How to define census tables/indicators cont.

• Organization of work
• Teamwork is necessary for well-designed census
  indicators
• Demographers and other subject-matter specialists
  on education, labor force, disability, housing
  characteristics etc. should be involved in this
  process
• The work should be organized by covering the
  results of all available censuses to provide time
  series information

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Data analysis and quality

• Data quality, coverage should be checked before
  dissemination, for example by comparing to the
  results of other sources (household
  surveys/administrative registers) and/or previous
  censuses
• In case of coverage or quality problem,
  alternative methods (indirect techniques, some
  adjustment) can be used to estimate concerned
  indicators

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Proposed tables/indicators for CensusInfo

• In order to help countries in setting up their
  own national tables/indicators
• Census tables/indicators with accompanying
  metadata are derived from the core topics given
  in United Nations Principles and Recommendations
  for Population and Housing Census, Rev 2. by
  UNSD
• Proposed tables/indicators should be disseminated
  by different geographical levels, such as
  regions, provinces, administrative units

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Census Topics

• Population topics
• Geographical characteristics
• Internal migration characteristics
• International migration characteristics
• Household and family characteristics
• Demographic and social characteristics
• Fertility and mortality
• Educational characteristics
• Economic characteristics
• Disability characteristics
• Housing topics

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Geographical characteristics

• Place of usual residence/place where present at
  time of census
• Population by urban and rural (de jure/de facto)
• Proportion of population by urban and rural
• Annual population growth rate
• Population density

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Internal migration characteristics

• Duration of residence
• Population by duration of residence (categories
  less than 1 year, 1-4 years, 5-9 years and 10 and
  more years)
• Prop. of population by duration of residence
• Migration number and rates
• in-migrants, out-migrants, net-migration
• in-migration rate, out-migration rate, net
  migration rate

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International migration characteristics

• Country of birth
• Foreign-born population by age
• Prop. of foreign-born population by age
• Citizenship
• Foreign population by age
• Prop. of foreign population by age
• Year or period of arrival
• Immigrants by period of arrival (categories less
  than 1 year, 1-4 years, 5-9 years and 10 and more
  years)
• Prop. of immigrants by period of arrival

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Household and family characteristics

• Size of households
• Households by size
• Proportion of households by size
• Average size of household
• Household and family composition
• Households by type (one person, nuclear,
  extended, composite and other)
• Proportion of households by type

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Demographic and social characteristics

• Sex
• Population by sex
• Prop. of population by sex
• Sex ratio
• Age/age group
• Population by five-year age groups, (0-4, 5-9,
  10-14, , 100)
• Prop. of population by five-year age groups
• Age dependency ratio total, young, old
• Marital status
• Population by marital status (never married,
  married, widowed, divorced and married but
  separated) and age
• Proportion of population by marital status and age

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Fertility and mortality

• Fertility
• Average number of children ever born alive
• Births in the past 12 months by age of mother
• Crude birth rate
• Total fertility rate
• Age specific fertility rate
• Deaths
• Deaths in the past 12 months by age
• Crude death rate
• Infant mortality rate
• Child mortality rate
• Life expectancy at birth

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Educational Characteristics

• Literacy
• Literate population by age
• Adult literacy rate
• Literacy rate for youth
• Ratio of literate women to men for aged 15 to 24
  years
• School attendance
• Students by level of education
• Gross attendance ratio
• Net attendance ratio
• Ratio of girls to boys
• Educational attainment
• Population by competed level of education
• Proportion of population by completed level of
  education

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Economic characteristics

• Activity status
• Active population by age
• Activity rate by age
• Unemployed population by age
• Unemployment rate by age
• Occupation
• Employed population by occupation
• Proportion of employed population by occupation
• Industry
• Employed population by industry
• Proportion of employed population by industry

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Economic characteristics Cont.

• Status in employment
• Employed population by status in employment
• Proportion of employed population by status in
  employment
• Proportion of own-account and contributing family
  workers
• Share of women in wage employment in the
  non-agricultural sector

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Disability characteristics

• Disability status
• Population with disability by age
• Prop. of population with disability by age
• Types of disability
• Population by types of disability (seeing,
  hearing, walking, cognition disability)
• Proportion of population by types of disability

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Housing characteristics

• Type of living quarters
• Occupancy status
• Type of ownership
• Number of rooms
• Availability of kitchen
• Bathing facilities
• Types of toilet
• Types of lighting
• Fuel used for cooking
• Main source for drinking water
• Water supply system
• Main types of solid waste disposal
• Sewage disposal

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Sub-groups in CensusInfo

• Sub-groups can be defined by considering
  followings
• Breakdowns that are expected to have significant
  variations for a specific topic, such as age,
  sex, urban/rural.
• Main categories of topic or indicator, such as
  duration of residence, major groups of
  occupation, types of living quarters.
• There is no standard way of defining sub-groups

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Metadata

• Metadata includes descriptive information about
  the data/indicators
• Categories
• Definition
• Classification
• Method of computation
• Geographical breakdown
• Comments and limitations

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Reports from CensusInfo

• Report
• to replicate standard census table reports for
  different areas and time periods
• Advanced reports
• to present tables, maps and graphs by geographic
  units
• to present the findings of census results by
  geographical units

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Development of the software

• Main improvements in the software
• Data import module (a CSV file)
• Metadata categories
• Revisions for census terminology
• Selection procedure of sub-groups
• Report module
• Age pyramid
• Standard reports (profile reports by geographic
  units)
• User-defined reports
• Census atlas

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CensusInfo website
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CensusInfo website
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Global CensusInfo

• Disseminates census indicators by country with
  map and graph facilities
• Initially contains basic results of 2000 round of
  census results
• More indicators gradually will be added with 2010
  round census results

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