The use of the administrative data as a means for the costs and burden reduction is a very popular practice in the modern official statistics. In Slovenia already the 2002 Census was partly based on administrative data sources, while the next, 2011 Census is planned to be fully register based. The quality assessment of the census processes and results is an important obligation of statistical offices. In the document some considerations are presented about the modifications of the quality assessment concepts when moving from a conventional to a register-based census. The first part of the document is devoted to some general reflections, while in the second part the focus is on the plans for the quality assessment of the Slovenian 2011 register-based census.

Paper presented at the Joint UNECE/Eurostat Meeting on Population and Housing Censuses, Geneva, 13-15 May 2008.

[Paper also available in French and Russian]