The 2010 Population Census in Indonesia is a massive and complex statistical undertaking covering 33 provinces and 497 districts/municipalities scattered all over Indonesia, employing about 650,000 enumerators and supervisors. Questionnaire design and data collection strategy will be developed to match various domestic needs and internationally comparison purposes. New technology for data capture, employing Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR System) will decrease the number of staff members for data entry and timeliness of data dissemination.

Paper presented at the 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Durban (South Africa), August 2009.