Preparations for Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in Bosnia and Herzegovina Vienna, 4-5.03.2010.

Decision of Council of Ministers, November 2008 The year 2011 is the target year for the Census of Population, Housing and Dwellings in BiH Official preparations started Inter-Agency Working Group prepared agreed text of the Draft Census Law

Reference date, period and method of enumeration Draft Census Law: The Census should be conducted in the period from 1st to 15th April 2011, according to the situation as on 31st March 2011 at 24:00 hours (midnight) defined as the reference date of the Census Traditional census – interview method

Ethnic-cultural charasteristics Ethnic-national affiliation Mother tongue Religion For these questions, a modality ‘does not declare’ is also foreseen According to Article 2 of the BiH Constitution, the respondent does not have to answer these questions Ethnic/nactional affiliation Mother tongue Religion

Ethnic-cultural charasteristics, cont. The census forms and methodological instructions shall be printed three official languages in BiH Respondents belonging to national minorities will have a possibility to have a look into specimens of the census forms in their mother tongue.

Refugees from BiH (returnees) and displaced persons Place where the person was enumerated at the time of the Census in 1991 (31.03.1991.) Whether the person was a refugee from BiH returned from exile to another place in BiH returned from exile to the place from which he fled (a returnee)

Refugees from BiH (returnees) and displaced persons,cont Whether the respondent was a displaced person in BiH Place from which the person was displaced Whether the respondent has a formal-legal status of displaced person in BiH Whether the respondent has an intention to return to the place from which he was displaced

Refugees in BiH Whether the respondent has ever lived outside of BiH for a continuous period of a year or more Month and year of arrival Country from which a person migrated to Reasons for moving to BiH Work Education Family reasons Forced migration (asylum seekers and refugees in BiH) Other

Pilot Census By the Draft Census Law, the Pilot Census of population, households and dwellings was planned for April 2010. A draft content of basic census forms (for persons, households and dwellings) and methodologic instruction for enumerators were prepared.

Data entry (OCR) Design of the census forms is customized to OCR/ICR scanning technology Training of employees from the ICT sectors of all the three statistical institutions started A number of presentations on the OCR/ICR solution were held Technical specification was prepared for the procurement of equipment and software licenses (IPA 2009)

Draft Census Law Parliamentary Assembly of BiH did not adopt proposed Draft Law on Census of population, households and dwellings Parliamentary group is set up to draft the new Law on Census of population, households and dwellings

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