1. Population Census 2009 in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Population Census 2009 in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Sagynbayeva Ayaulym
Akhmetova Zhanar
Department of Social and Demographic statistics
Hanoi, December 2-6, 2013

2. Legal framework 2010 World Population and Housing Census
Programme planned by the United Nations for
the period 2005‐2014
Resolution No of the Government of the
Republic of Kazakhstan in November 28, 2007
“On 2009 National Population Census of the
Republic of Kazakhstan”

3. PC‐2009 Programme
PC‐2009 was carried out from February 25 to March 6, 2009
Factors that have been influencing the content of
questions in the census programme :
census variables comparability with analogous variables
used in previous censuses
compliance with current international requirements
requirements to information with consideration for the
new directions of country’s socioeconomic development
The Programme PC‐2009 comprises 53 questions, among them:
• demographic and socioeconomic questions
• 8 questions on housing conditions

4. PC‐2009 Programme
Census forms: 1) 2П (2P) – lists of inhabitants; 2) 2Ж (2ZH)– housing conditions; 3) 3С (3C)– enumeration form (45 questions); 4) 4И (4I) – enumeration form for persons who are not residents of the Republic of Kazakhstan; 5) 1Б (1B) – accompanying form; 6) КФ (KF) ‐ control badge ; 7) ЛО (LO) – cover page.

5. New developments in the PC‐2009 Programme
The following questions have been
included:
religion
computer literacy
date of birth of the first child and the
number of children that respondent
planed to have
period of construction and
construction materials of outer walls
of houses

6. The pilot census
The pilot census had been carried out from February 25 to March 6, 2008 in the territory of Turkestan Urban Administration, South Kazakhstan Region This region was selected because of: • population of this region amounts to about 1% of total population of the country • urban and rural population is uniformly distributed, housing conditions are representative • basic demographic characteristics corresponds to socioeconomic characteristics of the country as a whole

7. PC‐2009
The enumerators visited respondents in their dwellings to canvas the population. Only the enumerators were authorized to visit house or apartment / room and ask all the required questions
The enumerator filled out the enumeration forms according to oral information provided by interviewed household members. At the same time, the answers on behalf of small children were provided by adult household members
The enumerator marked in the enumeration forms only those responses that was provided by respondents
If the person living at a given address was not at home at the enumeration point of time, then the adult household members living with this person could provide an information about that person. In this case, it was marked in the enumeration form that he or she was temporarily absent
Those persons who did not let enumerators visit them at their house were advised to visit the stationary enumeration offices that were organized in each populated locality
The census was conducted at the governmental facilities having special contingent at the classified objects (Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Defense, and so on).

8. Data processing Stage 1:
- data capturing (scanning) from the original enumeration
forms
- automatic data recognition
logical control of records
The software ABBYY FormReader Enterprise Edition has
been used.
Stage 2:
- creating the aggregate database for the Republic [of Kazakhstan], the database
is broken down by territorial units
- arranging the census database
- removing the duplicate and improperly recognized digital and textual records
- conducting the comparative analysis

9. Information technologies application
Advantages
data creation, warehousing,
processing and providing various
data presentation media
improving access for different
types of users to any targeted
PC‐2009 data and protecting
data confidentiality at the same
time
Disadvantages
substantial software gaps,
the logical control module is
not properly enhanced, that
have an adverse effect on
data quality and timeliness
of obtaining the final census
results and output tables to
compile the first census
results

10. Output results
«Brief Results of 2009 Population Census of the Republic of Kazakhstan» in the official State language and in Russian
• 16 topical series of statistical publications, containing demographical, socioeconomic, ethnocultural characteristics of population:
1. Population (2 volumes)
2. Ethnicity, religion and knowledge of languages
3. Migration
4. Education
5. Households (2 volumes)
6. Marriage and family characteristics
7. Employment (3 volumes)
8. Income and sources of means for living
9. Men and women
10. Young people
11. Children
12.Women
13. Aged population
14. City profile
15. Rural profile
16. Housing conditions

11. Thank you for your attention!
Sagynbayeva Ayaulym
Akhmetova Zhanar