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Questionnaire Content & Development
These technical notes summarize international recommendations and standards for measuring key social and demographic characteristics from census data.
Quality Assurance: Household Rostering in a Census
This technical note details international guidelines on identifying household members at their usual place of residence for a census enumeration.
Measuring Participation in Own-Use Production of Goods in a Census
This technical note details new standards and international guidelines on measuring work and own-use production of goods in a census.
Measuring Educational Characteristics in a Census
This technical note details internationally recognized standards on the collection and dissemination of educational characteristics in a census.
Measuring Child Mortality from a Census
This note provides guidance on how to estimate child mortality from a census, when vital registration records are incomplete.
Measuring Work and Labor Market Participation in a Census
This technical note discusses questions on economic characteristics in a census and applications of new concepts about labor supply.
Measuring Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in a Census
This brief provides National Statistical Offices (NSOs) with information on advances in the measurement & reporting of water, sanitation, & hygiene in a census.
E-Census Part 4: Developing Specifications for an E-Questionnaire
This brief provides guidance to National Statistical Offices on how to develop specifications for an electronic questionnaire.
Measuring Migration in a Census
This technical note summarizes the recommendations from the international community on measuring migration in a census.
Measuring Fertility in a Census
This technical note provides guidance on recommended questions to ask in a census and common methods to estimate fertility.
Measuring Disability in a Census
This technical note presents a brief analysis of the conceptualization of disabilities and clarifies how disability data should be collected in a census.
Measuring Maternal Mortality
This technical note contains recommended questions for asking about maternal mortality in a census and strategies for improving data quality.
E-Census Part 2: Developing an Electronic Questionnaire
Converting a paper questionnaire to an electronic format involves more than simply replicating the paper questionaire on a screen of a mobile device.
Page Last Revised - January 23, 2024
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