Demographic and Social Statistics

Overview

The Expert Group Meeting on the Draft Handbook on Registers-Based Population and Housing Censuses is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in a virtual format, with the aim of reviewing the draft handbook and providing input and guidance on the content of the draft handbook. The purpose of this handbook is to strengthen the capacity of national statistical offices and census agencies on the process of transitioning from the traditional census methodology to other approaches involving the use of administrative registers and/or sources. This handbook also aims to elaborate on the key considerations and requirements for transitioning from the traditional census to other census methodologies, and on the importance of building institutional capacity and infrastructure for maintaining statistical registers. Once finalized, this handbook will become a component of the United Nations methodological framework for population and housing censuses in the 2020 round, anchored by the UN principles and recommendations for population and housing censuses, and consisting of handbooks on census management, census editing, use of contemporary technologies for census-taking, measuring migration and post-enumeration surveys - all available at: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/census/index.cshtml.

Main documents

• Programme of work
• List of participants
• Draft Handbook on Registers-Based Population and Housing Censuses

Recorded sessions

• Day 1 - United Nations Expert Group Meeting on the Draft Handbook on Registers-Based Population and Housing Censuses
 
• Day 2 - United Nations Expert Group Meeting on the Draft Handbook on Registers-Based Population and Housing Censuses
 
• Day 3 - United Nations Expert Group Meeting on the Draft Handbook on Registers-Based Population and Housing Censuses