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United Nations Regional Seminar on Census Data Dissemination and

Spatial Analysis

5-8 October, 2010 Bangkok, Thailand.

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H.R.Dias, Deputy Director

Dept. of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka

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1. Introduction2. Stages of CPH20113. Census Questionnaire4. User meeting5. Data Dissemination

Outline

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1. Introduction

• A Census of Population and Housing is usually carried out once in every 10 years; Last one was in 2001 after a lapse of 20 years; confined to 18 out of 25 districts.

• CPH 2011 will be the 14th Census and will cover the entire country (all districts including Northern and Eastern Provinces) after 30 years.

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2. Stages of CPH 2011

• CPH 2011 will be conducted in three main stages

– Mapping Operation (almost finished)– Listing of buildings (will be in 1st Quarter 2011)– Census enumeration (will be in 2nd Quarter 2011)

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3. Census Questionnaire

28 questions on Individual informationDemographic and Social Characteristics, Migration, Persons with physical and mental difficulties, Education and Literacy, Economic Activities, Fertility

16 questions on Housing InformationHousehold information, Housing unit Characteristics

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4. User Meeting , Comments – responses from users(2010.03.23)

Type of institution Comments requested

Comments Received

1. Ministries 49

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2. Departments 67

3. Statutory Boards 69

4. District Secretariats 25

5. Provincial Councils 08

6. Academic Institutes 21

7. International Agencies 15

8. Others 22

Total 276

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4.1. Objectives of the User Meeting

• Improve Questions • Adding only most priority Questions • Improve Methodology

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kindly requested to; • Identify extremely important country needs

before adding new questions to the census schedule.

• Give their valuable comments to improve existing questions and methodology.

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4.2 Main requests of the Data users

• Additional data requirements, which has to be discussed with the questionnaire designing committee.

• Tabulations upto smallest administrative area.(GN level)

• Tabulations for urban, rural and estate sectors.• Facility to obtain interactive tables.

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5. Data Dissemination• Expected to disseminate census data through press

briefings, publications, CD’s and through the web.• Disseminate in stages based on - Commissioner’s summary reports - Enumerator Summaries - 5% sample data - Final processing of data• Includes bulletins, preliminary reports, district and

general reports, thematic reports, research reports.

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Data Dissemination plan

• Data dissemination plan

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