There are different methods of conducting a census all over the world. Recently, many countries including Turkey have attempted to change the method of census from traditional to register based census mainly in order to produce more frequent data and decrease the cost of the census. Main purpose of the paper is to present the experiences of Turkey on establishing the Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) which can be used as a basis for population and housing census and more importantly used by other governmental organizations for their official purposes.