Key issues for the censuses in South East Europe 2011 Vebjørn AALANDSLID Eurostat – Unit D1 Statistical Cooperation with European and Mediterranean countries 04/03/2010 Population and Housing Censuses in South East Europe

Planning and management Census law is adopted in 2 countries (RS, TR) scheduled to be adopted in 5 (HR, AL, XK, MK, ME). Status uncertain in BA Census budget covered in 3 countries (AL, MK, RS), awaiting census law in 4 (HR, XK, BA ME), choice of method not decided in TR Pilot censuses performed in 4 countries in 2009 (HR, MK, ME, RS) XK in 2008. 3 report plans to have pilots in 2010 (AL, TR, BA) Quality measures/Post Enumeration Surveys in place in 5 countries (AL, HR, MK, ME, RS), not specifically mentioned in XK, TR, BA. All report to have communication and media plans, few specific plans for outreach towards minorities 04/03/2010 Population and Housing Censuses in South East Europe

Census Methodology Census date for the region 31. March 2011. Census period ranging from 2-3 weeks. Turkey exception (23. October 2011) Most countries will have traditional census based on face to face interviews. Only TR update/make use of population registers Mapping, most countries plan update of maps in 2010 Enumeration of religion/ethnic minorities. 3 countries (MK, ME, RS) plan to use entirely open questions. HR and AL some pre-coded/some open questions. Others not specific. 04/03/2010 Population and Housing Censuses in South East Europe

Census Logistics/IT Training of enumerators. Extensive plans in majority of countries Census questionnaires. 1 country (HR) has finalised. Others still pending. Questionnaires planned to be translated into several languages in RS, MK and HR 4 countries plan to use OCR (RS, AL, BA, HR), 3 plan manual data entry(MK, ME, XK). TR still not decided on census method Preparations for data analysis/publishing. 6 state they have plans (AL, HR, XK, MK, RS, TR ) 2 not specific (ME, BA) Other challenges/problems? 04/03/2010 Population and Housing Censuses in South East Europe