Demographic and Social Statistics
Meetings
United Nations Regional Workshop on the 2020 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses: International Standards and Contemporary Technologies
Tbilisi, Georgia
- 24 - 27 April 2018
The regional workshop is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GeoStat) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) country offices and the regional office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
United Nations Regional Workshop on the 2020 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses: International Standards and Contemporary Technologies
- Tbilisi, Georgia
- 24 - 27 April 2018
The regional workshop is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GeoStat) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) country offices and the regional office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Overview
The main objective of the workshop is to introduce three recently revised/prepared international guidelines for population and housing censuses - the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (Revision 3), the Handbook on the Management of Population and Housing Censuses (Revision 2) and the Guidelines on the Use of Electronic Data Collection Technologies in Population and Housing Censuses - and the standards, concepts and methods contained therein in order to facilitate national planning and preparations for 2020 round censuses. The workshop will also provide a forum for reviewing national experience in, and document good practices on, the use of contemporary technologies including those for census mapping and data collection.
Main documents
- Organization of work: English / Russian
- Information note for participants
- List of participants
- Conclusions and recommendations
Presentations
- Session 2 ‐ Global and regional programmes in support of 2020 round population and housing censuses
- UNSD ‐ United Nations Statistics Division Programme in Support of the 2020 Round of Population and Housing Censuses
- UNFPA ‐ UNFPA engagement in the Population and Housing Censuses
- UNFPA ‐ UNFPA's support to data collection in Kazakhstan
- Session 3 ‐ Essential features, definitions and methodologies of population and housing censuses
- Session 4 ‐ Census planning and management
- UNSD ‐ Census planning and management
- Armenia ‐ Census planning and management
- Azerbaijan ‐ Population Census in the Republic of Azerbaijan in the 2020 round (Russian)
- Georgia ‐ 2014 General Population Census of Georgia
- Kyrgyzstan ‐ Planning and management of the population and housing census in the Kyrgyz Republic 2020 (Russian)
- Turkey ‐ Census planning and management
- Uzbekistan ‐ Population census in Uzbekistan (Russian)
- Session 6 ‐ Quality assurance in population and housing censuses
- UNSD ‐ Quality assurance in population and housing censuses
- Georgia ‐ Quality assurance in Population Census of Georgia 2014
- Kyrgyzstan ‐ Quality assurance in population and housing censuses (Russian)
- Moldova ‐ Quality Assessment of the Population and Housing Census 2014 - Republic of Moldova
- Turkey ‐ Quality Assurance Plans of Turkey for 2021 PHC
- Turkmenistan ‐ Quality assurance in population and housing censuses: Turkmenistan experience (Russian)
- Session 7 ‐ Recommended population and housing topics
- UNSD ‐ Recommended population and housing census topics
- Armenia ‐ Recommended population and housing census topics (Russian)
- Azerbaijan ‐ Population Census in the Republic of Azerbaijan in the 2020 round (Russian)
- Tajikistan ‐ Progress of preparatory work for the population and housing census of the Republic of Tajikistan in 2020 (Russian)
- Session 9 ‐ Planning and implementing a census geospatial programme
- UNSD ‐ Use of Geospatial information in support of census operations
- Georgia ‐ Introduction of GIS in Population Census of Georgia 2014
- Moldova ‐ Communication and dissemination campaign on PHC data in Moldova: Experience, challenges, plans
- Mongolia ‐ Mongolia: Use of Geospatial information in census
- Session 10 ‐ Use of handheld electronic devices for census data collection
- UNSD ‐ Data collection with handheld electronic devices
- Belarus ‐ Innovations in the 2020 Population Census (Russian)
- Georgia ‐ Use of handheld electronic devices for data collection in GeoStat
- Kazakhstan ‐ Use of handheld electronic devices (Russian)
- Tajikistan ‐ Use of new technologies in the population and housing census of the Republic of Tajikistan (Russian)
- Turkmenistan ‐ Planning the implementation of electronic data collection technologies: Turkmenistan's plans (Russian)
- Session 11 ‐ Data collection with Internet
- UNSD ‐ Data collection with Internet
- Kazakhstan ‐ Population Census via Internet (Russian)
- Mongolia ‐ Mongolia: Data collection with Internet
- Session 13 ‐ Considerations for planning census operations with multi-mode data collection methods
- UNSD ‐ Multi-Mode Data Collection Approach
- Kazakhstan ‐ Methods of conducting a population census in the Republic of Kazakhstan (Russian)
- Mongolia ‐ Mongolia: Multi-mode data collection methods
- Turkey ‐ Considerations for planning census operations with multi-mode data collection methods
- Session 14 ‐ Presentations on group discussions
Background documents
- Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Rev.3
- Handbook on the Management of Population and Housing Censuses, Rev.2