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These documents form the manuals for the Teleform software during the CARICOM Workshop on Census Data Processing. Read More

This manual is primarily a practical guide to survey planning, design and implementation. It covers many of the issues related to survey taking and many of the basic methods that can be usefully incorporated into the design and implementation of a... Read More

This Enumerator’s Manual is a comprehensive guide to the field collection aspects of the census activity. It outlines in detail the role and responsibilities of the enumerators, in terms of the procedures involved in the actual enumeration of... Read More

The first set of principles and recommendations for population and housing censuses was issued in 1958 at the request of the Statistical Commission of the United Nations in response to a need for developing international standards and as a... Read More

The steps outlined in this document are provided as a guideline for NSOs who want to enhance the access, use and management of administrative data in their statistical programs. For each step, a series of tasks is provided for consideration by the... Read More

Countries have frequently encountered problems in implementing census evaluation methods, and especially in designing and implementation post enumeration surveys. In that regard, they have urged the United Nations Statistics Division to prepare... Read More

Given the broad focus of Principles and Recommendations, it was not possible or practical to include in that publication details that would guide countries operationally in the implementation of those concepts and standards in censuses. The present... Read More

The newly revised and renamed Handbook on Geospatial Infrastructure in Support of Census Activities reflects the recommendations of the expert group meetings and regional workshops on GIS and census-mapping. Those bodies emphasized the need for... Read More

The purpose of the present publication is to assist countries by providing a reference document that focuses on the management aspects of carrying out population and housing censuses. In particular, the objectives of the publication are to provide... Read More

This manual is targeted at trainers who will be training enumerators. Read More