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Census of Population, Census of Population, Housing,Buildings,Establishments Housing,Buildings,Establishments

and Agricultureand Agriculture

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20102010

Huda Ebrahim Al ShrooqiHuda Ebrahim Al Shrooqi Central Informatics OrganizationCentral Informatics Organization

Why2010؟

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UN RecommendationsGCC Decision of the

Supreme Council

Decision of the Supreme CouncilAt its twenty-second - Muscat 2001

Census standardized for the GCC in 2010Decision of the Supreme Council At its twenty-second - Muscat 2010

Supreme Council of the Gulf, has considered the recommendations of the Ministerial Council at its eighty-first preparatory round approving the recommendation of the Committee for Planning and Development at its tenth meeting on the standardization of time periods for general censuses in the countries of the Council, and to achieve the integration of statistical activities of the GCC countries and the cost savings, and has decided that:

“Each of the Member States should conduct census in 2010, and standardize periods of general censuses to be held in every ten years. ” 

From Administrative Records

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. . .Census date in Bahrain……….

The first Gulf state & The fourth Arab state

to have census

1941 1950 1959 1965 1971 1981 1991 2001 2010

Make use of the database of the Central Population Registry

and of various government agencies to extract the required

data for the general census. Estimates for the indicators

which are not available in the database are obtained

through a sample survey .

PopulationHousingBuilding

EstablishmentAgriculture

• Central Population Register was established in 1984 Based on 1981 census data.

• The establishment of the Governmental network in 1994.

• Linking more than 300 government websites with government network.

• Placement of security systems and ensuring confidentiality in the government network .

• Decision of the Council of Ministers to Standardize the instruments, concepts, definitions and classifications in 2009.

• Determine the ownership of the data in different sectors.

• Readiness of the Systems in the government sectors .

• Develop a mechanism to update the population Register data as part of the working procedures in government sectors.

The availability of the infrastructure of database

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MunicipalitiesMunicipalities

AgricultAgricultureure

Tabulation

GeograGeographic phic

InformInformationation SysteSyste

mm

ElectriElectricity & city & Water Water AuthorAuthor

ityity

NationNationality, ality, PasspPassport & ort & ResideResidencyncy

M/O M/O JusticJustic

ee

LMRLMRAA

M/O M/O HealtHealt

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Central Central Population Population

RegisterRegister

Census Data Sources- MinistriesCensus Data Sources- Ministries……

Commercial Commercial RegistrationRegistration

Social Social Insurance & Insurance &

PensionPensionM/O industry M/O industry & Commerce& Commerce

M/O Social Development Housing

and buildings

Labour Labour Market Market AuthoAutho

rityrity

Central Informatics organisation (CIO)

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Social Development

 Nationality, Passports andResidence

  Social Insurance OrganizationLabour Market Regulatory Authority 

Ministry of industry & Commerce

Ministry of Education

Ministry of Municipalities and Ministry of Electricity

Basic data of the population(Age,Sex, Name, Address, Religion…etc)

Marital Status

Vital Statistics

Disabilities

NationalityDuration of residence

ManpowerEstablishments

Economic Activity of establishments

EnrollmentEducation LevelEducational Attainment

The type of occupancy and ownership of buildings , housing and Establishments

Establishments Census

Central Informatics organisation (CIO)

Ministry of industry & Commerce WorkersNon-

commercial records

Commercial records

Commercial records and Non-commercial

Tables

Establishments frame

• Compared to the databases with the census requirements of the United Nations, General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the League of Arab States.

• Determine the variables to be completed in the census database.

• Finalise definitions and classifications between sources.

• Update the database of census data from the databases of government sectors on a regular basis.

• Revise and create the Central Population Registry database, after obtaining the updated information from other Ministries.

• Retrieve the data from the revised Central Population Registry database .

• Completion of the census data from other government sectors.

• sample survey in households for variables that needs to be supplemented (by telephone communications and field visits)

• Extraction and validation of results.

• Putting the census in public arena.

publish census results November 2010

Census databases

population record database

Create a population record database

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samplesample

population population recordrecord

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3

4

5

Programs/ collaboration with other data agencies.

Readiness of the hardware

Survey Management

Data Management & reports

. . .

pilot run

27 / 12 / 200927 / 01 / 201027 / 02 / 2010 27 / 03 / 2010

Census day27 / 04 / 2010

Validating the census data and preparation of

tables

The Mechanism action to implement the census

Beginning

Retrieve the data

Central Population Registry

Copy of the data

Validated data

Vital records

Analyze the data

General Errors

Can be corrected in the office

Yes

Team fieldNo

Verification of the data

Census team

Updated population registry data manually

Records team

Updated population registry data automatically

No

Yes

Revise and create the Population Registry database

Operations

Central Population team

census team

Operations

Objective•Collect information required for the census, in respect of the data which are not available in administrative records.

•Evaluation of data on household size, current employment status & highest educational level achieved for their accuracy.

Steps•About 15000 families has been selected from the Central Population Registry database as a framework for a sample survey that covered Bahraini, non-Bahraini and collective households.

•Each governorate was a stratum. Samples were proportionally allocated to each substratum of Bahraini, non-Bahraini and collective households. • Samples were selected in a systematic manner after arranging the households as per their size.

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Coordinator field work

280 Researchers140 teams

4 teams for each supervisor

Director of the call Centre

Field works

Chief of Operations

15,000Household

supervisors field 35

Registered field 2

2supervisor of the call

Centre

Quality 2

Hotline 4

3(Technical Support,Systems developmentCustomer Services)

28 staff for call center

Call center

1. Indicate that the household composition surveyed is different from the data base on the day of enumeration. Some cases were found to be like:

• Addition of servants who were not issued with a personal number.• Some individuals move to another address housing, without informing &

changing the address with the CPR.

2. Show that the number of households in house as per the survey is different from the number of households in actual census .

3. Collective households have been changed to private households.

4. Show that some of the characteristics of education and the workforce for some individuals in survey is different from what the actual census is recorded such as employees or temporary staff who have not been modified their records for the time of enumeration.

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