Overview of CensusInfo as Tool for Dissemination of Census Data

1. Overview of CensusInfo as Tool for Dissemination of Census Data

2. Content of Presentation • 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme • What is CensusInfo • Main features of CensusInfo • How to define census indicators • Proposed tables/indicators for CensusInfo • Reports from CensusInfo • Development of the CensusInfo • CensusInfo website • Global CensusInfo

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. • Recognizes population and housing censuses as one of the main sources of data for effective development planning and objective decision-making.

4. 2010 World Population & Housing Census Programme cont. • 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 2005-2014 • To assist countries to disseminate census results in a timely manner

5. What is CensusInfo ? • CensusInfo is a software package for disseminating census data on CD-ROM and on the web • Developed by UNSD in partnership with UNICEF and UNFPA • Officially launched in February 2009 at the 40th session of the Statistical Commission • Available on-line for free

6. Objective of CensusInfo • “to disseminate the main tables and indicators on population and housing characteristics for the country as a whole and for geographical areas/administrative units that can be used for planning, management and evaluation of development programs “

7. Main features of CensusInfo • a tool to disseminate population and housing census results on the web and on CD-ROM • presents indicators with map and graph facilities by date of census and different geographic levels, from regions to small geographic area • includes census topics and a suggested list of census tables/indicators with accompanying metadata • customized to meet country-specific census indicators • generates user-defined tables, graphs, maps and reports • import data from other software applications

8. How to define census tables/indicators • Define indicators by taking into account: • Main results of the census on the smallest geographical level considering national priorities and international comparability • Monitoring indicators of international, national and sub-national development programs • Needs of the related national organizations and principal users (e.g. ministries, state planning office, local authorities, private sector organizations…)

9. How to define census tables/indicators cont. • Organization of work: • Teamwork is necessary for well-designed census indicators • Demographers and other subject-matter specialists on education, labor force, disability, housing characteristics etc. should be involved in this process • The work should be organized by covering the results of all available censuses to provide time series information

10. Data analysis and quality • Data quality, coverage should be checked before dissemination, for example by comparing to the results of other sources (household surveys/administrative registers) and/or previous censuses • In case of coverage or quality problem, alternative methods (indirect techniques, some adjustment) can be used to estimate concerned indicators

11. Proposed tables/indicators for CensusInfo • In order to help countries in setting up their own national tables/indicators • Census tables/indicators with accompanying metadata are derived from the core topics given in “United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Census, Rev 2.” by UNSD • Proposed tables/indicators should be disseminated by different geographical levels, such as regions, provinces, administrative units

12. Census Topics • Population topics • Geographical characteristics • Internal migration characteristics • International migration characteristics • Household and family characteristics • Demographic and social characteristics • Fertility and mortality • Educational characteristics • Economic characteristics • Disability characteristics • Housing topics

13. Geographical characteristics • Place of usual residence/place where present at time of census • Population by urban and rural (de jure/de facto) • Proportion of population by urban and rural • Annual population growth rate • Population density

14. Internal migration characteristics • Duration of residence • Population by duration of residence (categories: less than 1 year, 1-4 years, 5-9 years and 10 and more years) • Prop. of population by duration of residence • Migration number and rates • in-migrants, out-migrants, net-migration • in-migration rate, out-migration rate, net migration rate

15. International migration characteristics • Country of birth • Foreign-born population by age • Prop. of foreign-born population by age • Citizenship • Foreign population by age • Prop. of foreign population by age • Year or period of arrival • Immigrants by period of arrival (categories: less than 1 year, 1-4 years, 5-9 years and 10 and more years) • Prop. of immigrants by period of arrival

16. Household and family characteristics • Size of households • Households by size • Proportion of households by size • Average size of household • Household and family composition • Households by type (one person, nuclear, extended, composite and other) • Proportion of households by type

17. Demographic and social characteristics • Sex • Population by sex • Prop. of population by sex • Sex ratio • Age/age group • Population by five-year age groups, (0-4, 5-9, 10-14, …, 100+) • Prop. of population by five-year age groups • Age dependency ratio: total, young, old • Marital status • Population by marital status (never married, married, widowed, divorced and married but separated) and age • Proportion of population by marital status and age

18. Fertility and mortality • Fertility • Average number of children ever born alive • Births in the past 12 months by age of mother • Crude birth rate • Total fertility rate • Age specific fertility rate • Deaths • Deaths in the past 12 months by age • Crude death rate • Infant mortality rate • Child mortality rate • Life expectancy at birth

19. Educational Characteristics • Literacy • Literate population by age • Adult literacy rate • Literacy rate for youth • Ratio of literate women to men for aged 15 to 24 years • School attendance • Students by level of education • Gross attendance ratio • Net attendance ratio • Ratio of girls to boys • Educational attainment • Population by competed level of education • Proportion of population by completed level of education

20. Economic characteristics • Activity status • Active population by age • Activity rate by age • Unemployed population by age • Unemployment rate by age • Occupation • Employed population by occupation • Proportion of employed population by occupation • Industry • Employed population by industry • Proportion of employed population by industry

21. Economic characteristics Cont. • Status in employment • Employed population by status in employment • Proportion of employed population by status in employment • Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers • Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector

22. Disability characteristics • Disability status • Population with disability by age • Prop. of population with disability by age • Types of disability • Population by types of disability (seeing, hearing, walking, cognition disability) • Proportion of population by types of disability

23. Housing characteristics • Type of living quarters • Occupancy status • Type of ownership • Number of rooms • Availability of kitchen • Bathing facilities • Types of toilet • Types of lighting • Fuel used for cooking • Main source for drinking water • Water supply system • Main types of solid waste disposal • Sewage disposal

24. Sub-groups in CensusInfo • Sub-groups can be defined by considering followings • Breakdowns that are expected to have significant variations for a specific topic, such as age, sex, urban/rural. • Main categories of topic or indicator, such as duration of residence, major groups of occupation, types of living quarters. • There is no standard way of defining sub-groups

25. Metadata • Metadata includes descriptive information about the data/indicators • Categories: • Definition • Classification • Method of computation • Geographical breakdown • Comments and limitations

27. Reports from CensusInfo • Report • to replicate standard census table reports for different areas and time periods • Advanced reports • to present tables, maps and graphs by geographic units • to presentthe findings of census results by geographical units

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34. Development of the software • Main improvements in the software: • Data import module (a CSV file) • Metadata categories • Revisions for census terminology • Selection procedure of sub-groups • Report module • Age pyramid • Standard reports (profile reports by geographic units) • User-defined reports • Census atlas

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37. Global CensusInfo • Disseminates census indicators by country with map and graph facilities • Initially contains basic results of 2000 round of census results • More indicators gradually will be added with 2010 round census results

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