1. 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme
United Nations Statistics Division
Demographic Statistics Section

2. Overview of Presentation
2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme
Activities to assist countries in planning and conducting censuses
Guidelines, technical materials
Seminars, workshops, national training and advisory missions
2010 World Census Programme Resource Center
CensusInfo software for disseminating census data

3. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
Approved by the Statistical Commission at its 36th session in 2005 and adopted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) by its resolution A/2005/13
Recognize population and housing censuses as one of the main sources of data for effective development planning and objective decision-making 3

4. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
Three essential goals are:
To agree on international principles and recommendations to conduct a census
To facilitate countries in conducting census at least once during the period
To assist countries to disseminate census results in a timely manner
UNSD undertakes various activities under the programme with three essential goals.

5. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
Goal 1: Develop international census guidelines and technical material

6. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
UNSD activities to develop international census guidelines and technical materials
Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Rev. 2
Handbooks and technical reports:
Handbook on Census Management for Population and Housing Censuses
Handbook on Geospatial Infrastructure in support of Census activities
Handbook on Population and Housing Census Editing, Rev.1
Technical report on Census Data Capture Methodology
Post Enumeration Surveys: Operational guidelines

7. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
Goal 2: Facilitate countries in conducting censuses during the 2010 round
125 countries will have undertaken a census by the end of 2010
7 countries have not yet planned a census
Major problems or needs for assistance:
Funding
Preparation and planning
Cartography
Management and quality assurance
Data capture, especially scanning
Data processing
Dissemination and analysis
Evaluation, Post enumeration surveys
Others, including political problems 7

8. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
UNSD activities to help countries plan and conduct censuses
Training workshops on technical issues in census-taking
Expert group meetings
Advisory missions
Study visits
Development and maintenance of a Resource Centre on the internet
Development of a software for census data dissemination - Census Info

9. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
UNSD Regional workshops on census activities
International standards
Census management
Cartography
Technologies for mapping and data processing
Data capture and data editing
Census Evaluation and Post Enumeration Surveys
Census data dissemination and analysis
CensusInfo software as a tool for disseminating census data
21 workshops to strengthen technical capacity of NSOs

10. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
UNSD Expert Group Meetings and National Training
Expert Group Meetings
Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Rev. 2 (2 meetings)
Census mapping and use of geographical information systems (2 meetings)
National training
Strengthen technical capacity of countries on data analysis and dissemination
Assisting countries on using CensusInfo software

11. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
UNSD advisory missions on:
Census planning and management
Large-scale national sample surveys related with census
Cartography
Questionnaire design and instructions for field staff
Pretests and pilot census
Quality assurance
Post enumeration survey
Data processing and editing
Data evaluation
Data dissemination
Data analysis

12. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
Goal 3:To assist countries to disseminate census results in a timely manner
Inadequate data dissemination and analysis was generally a weakness of previous census rounds
UNSD undertakes various activities under the programme with three essential goals. 12

13. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme
UNSD activities to assist countries to disseminate census results
Project on strengthening national capacity to analyse, present and disseminate data for evidence-based policy making
National Seminars on Census Data Analysis
Analytical thematic reports
Regional seminars on dissemination and analysis of data
Development of a software for census data dissemination: CensusInfo
Activities to assist countries for CensusInfo
Regional workshops
Onsite technical support to assist/improve technical capacity of countries to adopt the CensusInfo software 13

14. 2010 World Census Programme Resource Center
Disseminating information on census activities via the 2010 World Population and Housing Censuses Programme Website and Newsletter

15. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme Resource Center
Provide information on census activities in the world:
Monitoring census taking in countries and publishing a monthly “census clock”
Publishing “Census News” on census activities
Publishing a Newsletter on recent and upcoming census-related events
Supporting activities (seminars, workshops...) conducted by different organizations

16. P&R, Handbooks and guidelines
2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme Resource Center (contd.)
Resource center on methodology and best practices in censuses: Census Knowledge Base containing -
P&R, Handbooks and guidelines
Good practices: papers provided by countries or other experts from seminars, etc.
Thematic pages on: cartography, data processing, data editing, census evaluation, CensusInfo, etc.
Post on web questionnaires used in national censuses

19. CensusInfo website 19

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