1. Key issues for the censuses in South East Europe 2011
Vebjørn AALANDSLID
Eurostat – Unit D1 Statistical Cooperation with European and Mediterranean countries
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2. Planning and management
Census law is adopted in 2 countries (RS, TR) scheduled to be adopted in 5 (HR, AL, XK, MK, ME). Status uncertain in BA
Census budget covered in 3 countries (AL, MK, RS), awaiting census law in 4 (HR, XK, BA ME), choice of method not decided in TR
Pilot censuses performed in 4 countries in 2009 (HR, MK, ME, RS) XK in report plans to have pilots in 2010 (AL, TR, BA)
Quality measures/Post Enumeration Surveys in place in 5 countries (AL, HR, MK, ME, RS), not specifically mentioned in XK, TR, BA.
All report to have communication and media plans, few specific plans for outreach towards minorities
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3. Census Methodology
Census date for the region 31. March Census period ranging from 2-3 weeks. Turkey exception (23. October 2011)
Most countries will have traditional census based on face to face interviews. Only TR update/make use of population registers
Mapping, most countries plan update of maps in 2010
Enumeration of religion/ethnic minorities. 3 countries (MK, ME, RS) plan to use entirely open questions. HR and AL some pre-coded/some open questions. Others not specific.
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4. Census Logistics/IT
Training of enumerators. Extensive plans in majority of countries
Census questionnaires. 1 country (HR) has finalised. Others still pending. Questionnaires planned to be translated into several languages in RS, MK and HR
4 countries plan to use OCR (RS, AL, BA, HR), 3 plan manual data entry(MK, ME, XK). TR still not decided on census method
Preparations for data analysis/publishing. 6 state they have plans (AL, HR, XK, MK, RS, TR ) 2 not specific (ME, BA)
Other challenges/problems?
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