Statistical Centre of Iran (SCI) In the Name of God Management Information System and Other Tools for Management and Monitoring of Field Enumeration Iran’s 2016 census by Maryam Pourreza Anvar Asiyeh Rashidinejad Statistical Centre of Iran (SCI) May 2018 United Nations Regional Workshop on the 2020 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses: International Standards and Contemporary Technologies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 8-11 May 2018

Management and Monitoring Intra-organization Extra-organization Attending field operations and checking the coverage, quality of work of the enumerators Resolve issues and problems of implementation

Control Room (Monitoring Field Operation) Developing web-based monitoring forms with the following specification: •Online Monitoring of the smallest area of administrative levels (block and village) •Online Monitoring all enumerators •Online Monitoring Of progress •Online and on-time precise reporting

Control Room

Developing 32 Software for the Census Internet and phone census Face to Face interview with Tablet Map Module Supervising the filed operation Post-enumeration Workforce Recruitment Portal and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Virtual training Editing and imputation Monitoring the Census infrastructures

Used Browsers

Used Devices

Visit Time to the Website % of household’s visits Time intervals 28 6 am to 12 pm 34 12 pm – 18 pm 35 18 pm- 24 pm 3 24 pm- 6 am

Achievements and Challenges of the 2016 Census Unprecedented welcome from online questionnaire completion Success in questionnaire completion with Tablet Device Reduce the respondent burden Improve census quality Manpower saving Remove Paper Reducing number of questions Incompleteness of address file Difficulties related to working with tablet by enumerators Doing two methods of census at the same time duplicated of technical activities Challenges Achievements

Innovations in the 2016 Population and Housing Census Simultaneous editing when completing questionnaire during field operation Using mixed methods in data collection including tablet, internet and telephone Synchronizing internet-based data and tablet data Using back up files on the tablets Using internet website and telephone-assisted enumeration for absent households Using Paperless questionnaire Monitoring and supervising census operation through designing and establishing control room

Iran’s Next Census The upcoming census is under review and also with respect to the accessibility to existing administrative data in the country and promotion of statistical system, implementation of register‐based census will be the main goal for the next census. To achieve this goal, the following prerequisites are : improving population information bank Completing and updating address file Linking national code to location code

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