United Nations Statistical Commission CensusInfo Learning Centre, 22 February 2010 CensusInfo...

United Nations Statistical Commission CensusInfo Learning Centre, 22 February 2010

CensusInfoProject in the Context of the 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme


Overview of Presentation

2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme What is CensusInfo Main features of CensusInfo How to manage process to define census indicators Proposed indicators for CensusInfo Reports from CensusInfo Activities to assist implementation of CensusInfo Global CensusInfo


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.

Recognize population and housing censuses as one of the main sources of data for effective development planning and objective decision-making.


2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme

Three essential goals are:1. To agree on international principles and

recommendations to conduct a census 2. To facilitate countries in conducting census at least

once during the period 2005-2014 3. To assist countries to disseminate census results in a

timely manner


What is CensusInfo ?

Developed by UNSD in partnership with UNICEF and UNFPA to disseminate census results

Officially launched in February 2009 at the 40th session of the Statistical Commission

Available on-line for free


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 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


How to manage process to define census 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…)



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



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


Proposed indicators for CensusInfo

In order to help countries in setting up their own national indicators

Census 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 indicators should be disseminated on regions, provinces, administrative units and by sex


Census Topics


Metadata for the indicators

Metadata includes descriptive information about the data/indicators

Categories: Definition Classification Method of computation Geographical breakdown Comments and limitations


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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Activities to assist implementation of CensusInfo

Regional workshops and in-house training to enhance the national capacity on application of CensusInfo CARICOM Countries in Guyana, 12-15 October 2009 English speaking African countries in Mozambique, 10-13 November 2009 French speaking African countries in Mali, 30 November-3 December 2009 Two national trainings in Liberia and Mozambique

In 2010, regional workshops and national trainings on application of CensusInfo

Technical guidelines on census data dissemination and analysis CensusInfo website to reach the useful documents on-line


CensusInfo website

Census topics and a suggested census indicators with accompanying metadata

Manuals, materials of regional workshops, technical support,

National applications Global CensusInfo

Available at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/CensusInfo/index.htm


CensusInfo website


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


Thank You

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