WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Technologies used by ECE countries in their 2000 round of censuses Social and Demographic Statistics Section UN Economic Commission for Europe - Statistical Division ECE Work Session on Gender Statistics Geneve, October 2004

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Data entry Methods Data-entry MethodNumber of countries Keyboard23 OMR14 OCR/ICR25 Internet8 Other3

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Double data entry by method Country% data double- entered Data-entry Method Armenia35Keyboard Azerbaijan Republic10Keyboard Bulgaria20Keyboard Czech Republic2OMR Canada20.54Keyboard Italy5OCR/ICR Kyrgyzstan10Keyboard Malta100Keyboard Poland5OCR/ICR Slovakia25OCR/ICR Ukraine1OMR UK - England and Wales100OMR UK - Northern Ireland100OMR United States5OMR

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Data entry technology Technology is not an end by itself

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Data entry Methods: timeliness KeyboardOMROCR/ICR >9101 Average

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Data entry Methods Software usedNumber of countries Own-software27 Commercial products18 Free-access software2

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Data Coding Software usedNumber of countries Manual coding21 Assisted coding23 Automatic coding28

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Data coding Only 6 countries reported the use of ready-made packages for data coding while 26 countries reported the development of their own package.

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Microdata databases Type of databaseNumber of countries High level (Oracle, SQL Server, …) 34 Desktop5 Statistical (SPSS system file, etc.)13 Demographic (REDATAM, etc.)5 Other13

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Proposal for a session on technology ECE: The purpose is to Guide not Prescribe

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Proposal for a session on technology Principles:  to build on existing UN Manual (Manual on data Editing and Manual on Census Management)  To give best practices/to discuss the conditions that need to be met in order to adopt technology  The latest technology is non necessary the best.

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Proposal for a session on technology 1. Data entry (reference to the existing UN handbooks) 1.1. Review of options Brief Description Advantages and Shortcoming 1.2 Conditions that need to be in place in order for each solution to be successfully applied 1.3 The need to monitor data entry errors and measure the margin of error: double-entry operations

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Proposal for a session on technology 2.Mapping 2.1. The use of GIS and GPS in improving coverage 3. Data coding 3.1. Key issues to consider and best practices 4. Data editing (reference to the UN Handbook on data editing) 4.1. Key issues to consider and best practices

WS Population Census 2004 UNECE Statistical Division Proposal for a session on technology 5. Sub-contracting 6. Methods to assure confidentiality –6.1 Data dissemination –6.2 Microdata