United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 In the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses IMPLEMENTATION of RECOMMENDATIONS for HOUSING TOPICS In the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses Session 10 United Nations Statistics Division

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Content  Objectives of evaluation of country practices  Main goals of conducting housing censuses  Method for reviewing country practices  Main findings of the analysis  Lessons learned from the 2010 round  Recommendations- possible revisions in the P&R and new topics

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Objectives  To what extent countries implemented the housing topics (core and non-core topics)  What are challenges in implementation of concepts and classifications  What are additional topics that are covered by countries but not included in the P&R

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013  Collecting information on:  supply of housing units osize of housing units and collective living quarters  structural characteristics and facilities o of living quarters, buildings, households  Developing benchmark statistics for building and construction statistics collected through administrative registers  Continues up-to-date statistics Main goals of conducting housing censuses

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Method for reviewing national census questionnaires  Two databases created by the UNSD were used oNational census questionnaires and dates  Census questionnaires of 124 countries - 27 in Africa, 18 in North America, 6 in South America, 27 in Asia, 24 in Europe, 22 in Oceania – were compared with the recommended housing topics based on the questions and classifications  National census questions were matched with the recommended topics in accurate manner for most topics. For several topics – type of living quarters, number of cars, type of buildings- matching was done using the classification of a specific topic.

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Main findings – core topics

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Main findings – non-core topics

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Regional Pattern  Both topics are core  Very low interest for ownership status except Europe  Europe collected information on both topics

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Regional Pattern  Topics for measuring overcrowding  Majority of countries preferred to collect data on the number of rooms rather than the number of bedrooms  Most of countries in North and South America collected data on both topics  Main interest of European countries - collecting data on the number of rooms, not bedrooms

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Regional Pattern  Both topics are core  Only in Asia, more countries are interested in collecting data on source of drinking water, rather than the type of the water supply system  Quite a few countries collected additional information on source of drinking water referring to special treatments-boiling, filtering - and the frequency of accessing water

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Topics covered by countries but not in the P&R  Availability of space for car parking  Position of dwelling in the building  Availability of recycling system for disposing garbage  Year of moving in the housing unit  Sources of income  Ownership of secondary/other housing unit

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Lessons learned  Remarkable regional pattern in implementing housing topics depending upon the conditions and needs of countries  Significant number of countries implemented most of the core topics, however; ­ Implementation of the recommended classifications differs  Information on supply of housing units is not available for the majority of countries – as a result of enumerating only occupied dwellings

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Lessons learned  Some of non-core topics are covered by the majority of the countries Year of construction, durable household appliances, cars, construction materials of floors/roof  Different approaches in formulating census questions for some topics - ICT device, number of cars, durable households appliances; separate question for each topic one question for collecting data on three topics ICT devices collected with several questions- internet/PC, TV/radio,

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Recommendations for possible revisions  Occupancy status Revising the classification - occupied dwellings, seasonal/secondary dwellings and vacant dwellings Elaboration on importance and uses  Heating type and energy used – two different concepts in one topic  separating in two topics; type of heating system type of energy used for heating  Type of buildings Revision of classification – delete the category of “buildings for persons living in institutions”

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 Recommendations for possible revisions  “Availability of outdoor space” and “Farm building” – Non-core topics Revisiting the importance and uses Discussion on if there is a need to be included in the P&R  Updating core topics with inclusion of; Year or period of construction Number of cars Availability of durable household appliances

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013  Availability of ICT devices Improving concepts to provide harmonized data Possibility of dividing in several topics; oInternet connection and PC oTelephone connection and type of phones oTelevision, radio and others – perhaps under the topic on durable household appliances Categories related to “household accessing the internet from home”, “ household accessing the internet from elsewhere other than home” would be collected more reliable with individual questionnaire Recommendations for possible revisions

United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Revising the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses New York, 29 October – 1 November 2013 New topics? Ownership of secondary/holiday housing units (location, ownership, some characteristics) Availability of space for car parking Position of dwelling in the building Availability of recycling system for disposing garbage Year of moving in the housing unit Possible new topics