POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS OF ETHIOPIA November, 2017 United Nations Regional Workshop on the 2020 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses: International Standards and Contemporary Technologies. Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania May 29-June 1 2017 Prepared by Seyoum Tadesse

AIMS OF PRESENTATION To provide an overview on: Background information, Legal Condition, Topics which will be used in the 2017 Census.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Administrative Division Of The Country Ethiopia has nine National States and Two City Administration , National States are divided into 96 zones and almost 1,200 districts.

Cont’d… BRIEF HISTORY OF CENSUS IN ETHIOPIA Ethiopia has so far conducted three National Population and Housing Censuses: The First Population and Housing Census was conducted in May 1984. The Population count at that time was 39.9 million.

Cont’d… The Second Population and Housing Census in October 1994 The Population count at that time was 53.5 million

Cont’d… The Third population and Housing Census was conducted in May 2007 under the supervision of National Population and Housing Census Commission. This time the population became 73.8million.

Cont’d… The data entry work for the first and second census took very long time. Therefore, the reports production took us longer time.

Cont’d… In the third census we used the scanning technology for data entry, therefore it was possible to provide the report in a reasonably short time. This time for the fourth census we plan to use tables for data collection for the majority of the country and paper for some of the places .

Cont’d… We used tables in the two pilot censuses conducted in November 2016 and March 2017. The two pilot censuses were done successfully using tables.

Legal condition The National Population and Housing Census Commission was established. The Regional Census Commissions are also established in 9 regions and in two city Administrations.

Cont’d… The Zone and district Census Commissions are going to be established in the coming few months. The smallest administrative division in Ethiopia is called “kebele” at this level we will have census committee.

Population and Housing census Topics which will be covered in 2017 Census 1.Details of household members(Relationship, sex, Age, religion, ethnicity and mother tongue are included here), 2.Orphanhood status,

Topics(Cont’d…) 3.Disability status (the Washington group classification and response categories are used), 4.Migration,

Topics (Cont’d…) 5.Marital status and Age at first marriage, 6.Education (Literacy status, school attainment and highest grade completed), 7. ICT use, 8.Economic Characteristics,

Topics (cont’d) 9.Fetility (Children ever born and birth in the last months), 10.Mortaliy(household death in the last 11.Housing characteristics, 12.Emigration (about Ethiopian who live abroad).

Topics(cont’d…) New topics used in the 2017 census are ICT use. and Emigration (about Ethiopians currently living abroad).

Topics(cont’d…) We do not drop topics from the last census.

Topics (cont’d) We changed the classification and responses categories which was used in the last three censuses in disability. This time we took the classifications and responses categories prepared by the Washington group.

Cont’d… Thank You