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The United Nations Statistics Division issues standards and methods approved by the Statistical Commission to assist national statistical authorities and other producers of official statistics in planning and carrying out successful population and housing censuses. For the 2020 World Population and Housing Census Programme, the Statistical Commission at its 43rd session, requested that the United Nations Statistics Division proceed with its work on the revision and update of the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses. The Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 3 was adopted by the Statistical Commission at its 46th session in 2015. The main objective of the Principles and Recommendations is to provide international principles and recommendations for use by national statistical offices and census officials in countries throughout the world in planning and organizing their censuses. For previous versions of the Principles and Recommendations, go to... In addition, the United Nations
Statistics Division has issued the following guidelines
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| Census Principles and Recommendations | Year |
File |
Size |
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| - | Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Rev.3 Arabic (, ) / Chinese (, ) / English (2017, 2.4 MB) / French (, ) / Russian (, ) / Spanish (, ) |
2017 | ||
| - | Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Rev.2 Arabic (2009, 2.3 MB) / Chinese (2010, 2.8 MB) / English (2008, 2.5 MB) / French (2009, 2.5 MB) / Russian (2009, 2.7 MB) / Spanish (2010, 2.2 MB) |
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| Census Handbooks | Year |
File |
Size |
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| - | Handbook on the Management of Population and Housing Censuses, Rev. 2 (Final draft, unedited, not typeset) |
2016 | 3.7 MB | |
| - | Handbook on Census Management for Population and Housing Censuses | 2001 | 1.8 MB | |
| - | Guidelines on the Use of Electronic Data Collection Technologies in Population and Housing Censuses | 2019 | 3.6 MB | |
| - | Handbook on Population and Housing Census Editing, Rev. 2 (Final draft, unedited, not typeset) |
2020 | 2.0 MB | |
| - | Handbook on Population and Housing Census Editing, Rev. 1 Chinese (2010, 2.8 MB) / English (2010, 2 MB) / French (2010, 2.1 MB) / Russian (2011, 2.9 MB) |
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| - | Measuring the Economically Active in Population Censuses: A Handbook Chinese (8.1 MB) / English (10.1 MB) / French (6.6 MB) / Russian (9.1 MB) / Spanish (6.8 MB) |
2010 | ||
| - | Handbook on Geospatial Infrastructure in Support of Census Activities Arabic (2010, 9.7 MB) / Chinese (2010, 3.6 MB) / English (2009, 5 MB) / French (2010, 10 MB) / Russian (2010, 5.2 MB) / Spanish (2010, 9.3 MB) |
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| Census Technical Reports & Other Reference Material | Year |
File |
Size |
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| - | Post Enumeration Surveys, Operational guidelines | 2010 | 1.1 MB | |
| - | Census Data Capture Methodology | 2009 | 0.6 MB | |