Census 2002 SLOVENIA

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Census 2002 - SLOVENIA
Integrating European Census Microdata IPUMS
Barcelona Workshop

• Danilo Dolenc
• Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

Barcelona, 26 July 2005
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Slovenia some facts

• 2 million of inhabitants
• Independence since 1991
• The most western part of former Yugoslavia
• Bordering to Austria, Italy, Hungary and Croatia
• EU Member State since 1 May 2004
• GDP per capita 13,000 EUR
• 78 of EU25 (16 place)

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Slovenia Censuses

• From 1961 to 1991 every 10 years methodology
  prepared by Federal SO
• Methodological non comparable
• National classifications
• 31. 3. 2002
• Full appliance of UN/ECE-Eurostat Recommendations
• Definitions
• Clasiffications

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Slovenia Census 2002

• Combination of
• Register based census
• 10 variables only from sources
• Field work
• Pre-printed questionnaires
• Solution for
• Non-response
• Double counting
• Use of modern technology
• Short time for processing

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Slovenia Microdata

• Only for 2002 Census
• 10 sample
• Household as a sample unit
• No institutional households
• No share occupancy
• Confidentiality
• An important issue
• Anonymization done by SORS
• No regional data
• No sensitive data (ethnicity, religion)
• Aggregation
• Blur coding

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Slovenia Variable (1)

• Table 3 comparison of availability
• Eurostat
• 88 variables
• IPUMS
• 84 variables
• Census 2002 SLOVENIA
• 92 variables
• IPUMS / Census 2002
• 52 common variables
• 43 potential for including in microdata set

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Slovenia Variable (2)
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Slovenia comparability

• Data of 2002 Census harmonized with
  Recommendations
• Definition of population
• Classifications
• Tabulations (all 40 tables sent to Eurostat)
• Recalculation of 1991 Census to 2002 methodology
  (only in national level)
• The main difference economic characteristics

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Slovenia web site

• 2002 Census in Slovenia in Internet
• www.stat.si/popis2002/en
• In English you can get
• Questionnaires in JPG
• Methodology and definitions
• Publications in PDF
• Data (by territory and content) in HTML and EXCEL

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Slovenia conclusion

• 2002 Census only
• Sample 10 done by SORS
• No cleaning needed
• Anynomization done by SORS
• Selection of variables in cooperation between
  SORS and MPC
• Part of documentation had to be translated