1. Statistical Centre of Iran (SCI)
In the Name of God
Management Information System and Other Tools for Management and Monitoring of Field Enumeration
Iran’s 2016 census by
Maryam Pourreza Anvar
Asiyeh Rashidinejad
Statistical Centre of Iran (SCI)
May 2018
United Nations Regional Workshop on the 2020 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses: International Standards and Contemporary Technologies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 8-11 May 2018

2. Management and Monitoring
Intra-organization
Extra-organization
Attending field operations and checking the coverage, quality of work of the enumerators
Resolve issues and problems of implementation

3. Control Room (Monitoring Field Operation)
Developing web-based monitoring forms with the following specification:
•Online Monitoring of the smallest area of administrative levels (block and village)
•Online Monitoring all enumerators
•Online Monitoring Of progress
•Online and on-time precise reporting

4. Control Room

5. Developing 32 Software for the Census
Internet and phone census
Face to Face interview with Tablet
Map Module
Supervising the filed operation
Post-enumeration
Workforce Recruitment Portal and CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
Virtual training
Editing and imputation
Monitoring the Census infrastructures

6. Used Browsers

7. Used Devices

8. Visit Time to the Website % of household’s visits
Time intervals 28
6 am to 12 pm 34
12 pm – 18 pm 35
18 pm- 24 pm 3
24 pm- 6 am

9. Achievements and Challenges of the 2016 Census
Unprecedented welcome from online questionnaire completion
Success in questionnaire completion with Tablet Device
Reduce the respondent burden
Improve census quality
Manpower saving
Remove Paper
Reducing number of questions
Incompleteness of address file
Difficulties related to working with tablet by enumerators
Doing two methods of census at the same time
duplicated of technical activities
Challenges
Achievements

10. Innovations in the 2016 Population and Housing Census
Simultaneous editing when completing questionnaire during field operation
Using mixed methods in data collection including tablet, internet and telephone
Synchronizing internet-based data and tablet data
Using back up files on the tablets
Using internet website and telephone-assisted enumeration for absent households
Using Paperless questionnaire
Monitoring and supervising census operation through designing and establishing control room

11. Iran’s Next Census
The upcoming census is under review and also with respect to the accessibility to existing administrative data in the country and promotion of statistical system, implementation of register‐based census will be the main goal for the next census. To achieve this goal, the following prerequisites are :
improving population information bank
Completing and updating address file
Linking national code to location code

12. Thank you for your attention