Demographic and Social Statistics

Overview

The Second United Nations Expert Group Meeting on the Revision of the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in New York from 13 to 15 December 2023. The main objective of the Expert Group meeting is to review the draft version of the Principles and Recommendations for the 2030 round. The Expert Group, which was established for the purpose of overseeing the revision of the Principles and Recommendations, held its first meeting virtually from 23 to 25 May 2023. The Expert Group set up seven Task Teams — corresponding to seven themes identified by the Expert Group as critical for the revision — to carry out the work of revising components of the publication. The meeting will review the draft version of the Principles and Recommendations with a view to bringing it in line with good practices and contemporary approaches to conducting population and housing censuses. A multitude of changes have been documented in the current census round pertaining to the use of technologies, adoption of multi-modal data collection, and utilization of administrative data sources. Many countries had to innovate to overcome the challenges of conducting censuses during the global COVID-19 pandemic. As a reference publication, the revised Principles and Recommendations will reflect the innovations made and the experiences collected thus far and provide comprehensive guidance to national statistical authorities for planning, organizing, conducting, and utilizing 2030 round population and housing censuses. It is expected that the next revision of the Principles and Recommendations will be submitted for endorsement by the Statistical Commission at its 56^th session in 2025.

Main documents

• Concept note for the revision of the Principles and Recommendations
• Programme of work
• Draft Principles and Recommendations for the 2030 round
• List of participants
• Information note for paricipants
• Conclusions

Presentations and Recorded sessions

• Day 1 - 2023-12-13: part 1 / part 2
• Session 2 - Organisation of the work revising the P&R
• UNSD - Organisation of the work revising the P&R
• Session 3 - Overview of regional processes in preparation for 2030 round of censuses
• ECE - Support for censuses of the 2030 round in the ECE region
• ECLAC - Population and Housing Censuses in Latin America: Impacts of the Pandemic, Opportunities, and Challenges - 2020 Round
• ESCAP - Briefing on ESCAP Census-related initiatives
• ESCWA - Regional preparation for 2030 census round and way forward
• Session 4 - Revisions carried out by Task Team 7 (Recommended topics on population and housing characteristics)
• Task Team 7 - Recommended topics on population and housing characteristics
• Day 2 - 2023-12-14: part 1 / part 2
• Session 5 - Revisions carried out by Task Team 1 (Census planning, organizing and management)
• Task Team 1 - Census planning, organizing and management
• Session 6 - Revisions carried out by Task Team 2 (Census methodologies, use of administrative data, and population concepts and definitions)
• Task Team 2 - Census methodologies, use of administrative data, and population concepts and definitions
• Session 7 - Group discussions
• Session 8 - Revisions carried out by Task Team 3 (Use of geospatial information in census operations)
• Task Team 3 - Use of geospatial information in census operations
• Day 3 - 2023-12-15
• Session 9 - Revisions carried out by Task Team 4 (Quality assurance, indicators and assessments)
• Task Team 4 - Quality Assurance, indicators and assessment
• Session 10 - Revisions carried out by Task Team 5 (Data collection and processing)
• Task Team 5 - Data collection and processing
• Session 11 - Revisions carried out by Task Team 6 (Communication, dissemination, and utilization)
• Task Team 6 - Communication, Dissemination and Utilization
• Session 12 - Conclusions and the way forward