Links to Population and Housing Censuses
FAO Statistics Division is
actively participating in Meetings related to the preparations
for the next round of Population and Housing Censuses to forge
closer links between this Census Programme and the Agricultural
Census Programme.
United Nations Symposium on Population and Housing Censuses, United
Nations Statistics Division, New York, 13-14 September 2004
Amongst its recommendations,
the Symposium recommended a review of the integration of statistical
systems through common frames for population, housing, agricultural
and establishment censuses, where relevant, as well as household
and other surveys and administrative sources; and to elaborate
the role of censuses as part of a fully integrated national statistical
system (para 13).
United Nations Expert Group Meeting to Review Critical Issues
Relevant to the Planning of the 2010 Round of Population and Housing
Censuses, United Nations Statistics Division, New York, 15-17
September 2004
The Expert Group recommended
that an Expert Subgroup should be established to review the section,
on the “uses in an integrated programme of data collection
and compilation”, of the 1998 United Nations Principles
and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses. The group
will review statistical units and frameworks and provide guidelines
on the role of population, housing, establishment and agricultural
censuses in an integrated system of statistics (para 47 (iii)).
Full Reports:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/meetings/egm/default.htm
Seminar on New Methods for Population Censuses, UNECE, Geneva,
22 November 2004
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2004.11.censussem.htm
Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Population Censuses, UNECE,
Geneva, 23-25 November 2004
The Work Session considered
the possible inclusion of agricultural characteristics of households
(possible new section to be discussed by Steering Group in cooperation
with FAO). It also proposed the setting up of a Task Force on
Agriculture. Leading organisation: FAO. Participating countries
to be identified.
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2004.11.census1.htm
Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Housing Censuses, UNECE, Geneva,
26 November 2004
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2004.11.census2.htm
Expert Group Meeting on Population and Housing Censuses, ESCAP,
Bangkok, 9-10 December 2004
A paper
on “Relationships to consider when planning the Population
and Housing Census and the Agricultural Census” was prepared
by FAO for the recent ESCAP Expert Group Meeting to illustrate
ways in which these two censuses could usefully be linked.
http://www.unescap.org/stat/meet/techmeet.asp
