The website of the 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme facilitates the international exchange and sharing of knowledge and information on census taking, as well as provision of guidance to countries, and monitoring progress on the implementation of the Programme. More...
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Needs Assessment Conference for Census Analysis, 11-13 November 2009, Dakar, Senegal, is sponsored by UNFPA and the UN Statistics Division.
The main objective of this conference, is to create a dialogue between census specialists and population data users in the region of sub-Saharan Africa. The aim is to achieve timely, accurate, and relevant census data relevant to the policy needs of the region. For more info go to: http://www.unfpa.org/public/site/global/lang/ en/pid/4118
Photo from the workshop.
Posted 13 November 2009
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United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat, is organizing a CensusInfo Regional Workshop for the Caribbean Region, in Georgetown, Guyana, from 12 to 15 October 2009. The workshop brings together the data managers from 17 countries in the Caribbean region and Guyana, many of which plan to have a census in 2010 or 2011. Upon the completion of the workshop, the participants are expected to acquire through hands-on exercises the skills to make census data in all of its disaggregated forms easily accessible to the international community.
Posted 16 October 2009
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In 2008, the UNSD organized a series of six workshops in different regions of the world to present and discuss contemporary technologies in census data capture, including the use of Optical Mark Recognition (OMR), Optical Character Recognition/Intelligent Character Recognition (OCR/ICR), Internet data collection, and use of handheld devices for data collection. In order to build knowledge on the vast amount of information presented and collected during these workshops, a technical report has been prepared to help countries in their planning of their next population and housing census. More...
Posted 7 October 2009
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The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), organized and conducted the Regional Workshop on Census Evaluation and Post Enumeration Surveys in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 September 2009. More...
Posted 5 October 2009
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The Cambodia 2008 Population Census final results have been released. The population of Cambodia increased by 1.96 million from 11.4 in 1998 to 13.4 million in 2008. More...
Posted 29 September 2009
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The website of the 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme is now on Twitter. Join today to start receiving Census's tweets and keep informed of the 2010 round of Population and Housing Censuses in the World.
Posted 26 August 2009
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The Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics is the first National Office of Statistics to disseminate the results of its 2007 census using CensusInfo. CensusInfo is a software package developed by the United Nations Statistics Division in partnership with UNICEF and UNFPA, to help countries disseminate census data on CD-ROM and on the web. Based on the DevInfo platform, specific functionalities have been added to meet the census dissemination requirements: enhanced performance, template reports for dissemination at any geographical level, and mapping facilities. More at:
http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/CensusInfo/
Posted 26 August 2009
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In 2005/2006, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat initiated the first phase in a programme of work designed to assist Member Countries of the Region in their preparations for the conduct of the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses. More...
Posted 14 August 2009
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During the preparations for the 2010 Census a new methodology was developed at the Aruba Central Bureau of Statistics, to determine type of household and family. More...
Posted 14 August 2009
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Since 1st July, detailed results of the 2006 census of France have been available on the website of Insee at www.insee.fr. From now on, census results will be updated every year and disseminated at every geographical level, from communes to the whole of France. Thanks to the yearly data collection (rolling census) and with the annual publication of the results, the census becomes an invaluable information source for decision making. More...
Depuis le 1er juillet, les résultats statistiques du recensement de la population de la France de 2006 sont accessibles sur un espace dédié du site www.insee.fr. Dorénavant actualisés chaque année, ces résultats sont proposés pour tous les niveaux géographiques, de la commune à la France dans son ensemble. Grâce à l’annualisation de la collecte et à la publication annuelle des résultats, le recensement devient une source d’information précieuse pour les acteurs publics. More...
Posted 14 August 2009
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