ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT

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ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and
Statistics CAPMAS
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The 2006 population census in Egypt (Planning
Management ) Prepared by Zeinab Gharib
Ibrahim General director for IT Technical
Affairs Luanda , Angola from 9 to 13 February
2009
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CONTENTS

• Introduction

• Method of Implementation

• Implementation - New Aspects

• Census Field Work

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Introduction

• The 2006 Population, Housing and Establishments
  General Census, the first in the twenty first
  century and the third millennium is actually the
  thirteenth of its kind in modern Egypt .

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• Method of Implementation
• De facto count, used in the census, means
  counting people in
• the place where they actually
• happened to be on the night of the
• count ( 20-21 November 2006 )

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• Implementation - New Aspects
• Use of Geographical Information System (GIS)
• Use of such system
• assured both comprehensive coverage of all areas
  in
• the field work and elimination of
  overlapping of areas .
• made assignments of areas for coding process much
  easier.
• For this purpose, the center for
  Geographical
• information Supplied maps on all
  levels.

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• Decentralization
• entailed opening up of centers for data
  entry and revision in the
  various regions of the country .
• advantages
• Disburdening the central area in Cairo of work
  referred to regions.
• Reducing the logistics of forms and records.
• Dispersing the burden of warehousing and handling
  of census forms.

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• Role of regions center
• Data Entry process (Scanningrecognitioncorrecti
  on).
• Automatic coding.
• Transfere data to the head quarter.
• Role of the head quarter
• Editing programs.
• Elementary tabulation.
• Statistical revision for the tabulation.
• Final tabulation for each governorate.
• Final tabulation on the level of country.

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• Use of scanners
• Scanners were essential in saving
  time and
• elimination of mistakes that would have
• occurred in entering date manually.
• With the use of scanners , electronic forms
  
• replaced the hard- to- store paper forms.
  

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• Modernized Training
• All participants in the Census were trained
• using most advanced means.
• The technical data for the census
• methodology and instructions was
• produced on video and CDs to unify
  the concepts for all
  workers.

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• Census Field Work
• Pre-census Tests
• Three Pre-Census tests were carried out
  It aimed at
• Perfecting designs of census forms.
• Identifying field problems and ways of tackling
  them.
• Testing performance rates for each worker and
  efficiency of work at each stage
• Testing scanners and decentralization in data
  processing.

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• Timing of Field Work Stages
• Preliminary stage Specifying Sheyakhat and
  numbering the roads and blocks
  from 27/5/2006 to 10/ 7/2006
• First stage Numbering the buildings and
  listing their
• components and numbering the
  establishments
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  from 24/7/2006 to 2/9/2006
• Second stage Listing the establishments in both
  urban
• and rural areas from 18/8/2006
  to 17/10/2006
• Third stage counting the households and
  individuals with all their
  characteristics from 21/11/2006 to 1/12/2006

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• 3- Media campaign included
• Televised campaign through all land satellite
  channels. Similar campaign was launched through
  
• newspapers magazines bill board along
  high ways and internal roads through
  out the country.
• The campaign was implemented by a
  specialized firm.
• Media messages for each stage of the census were
  broadcasted on T.V channels and published in
  newspapers and magazines /.

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EGYPT 2006 CENSUS Planning Management

• Participation by CAPMAS senior officials in
  Radio
  
  T.V programs about the
  census.
• Campaigns in all Egyptian universities.
• Campaigns in all governorates for the
  community
• and executive
  leaders.
• Visual aids campaign for all students at all
  levels jointly
• organized with the
  Ministry of Education.
• Issuing commemorative silver coin for the
  census.
• Issuing commemorative stamps for the census.

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The General Structure of the Census Staff
Responsible for all the census activities in
governorate
Observer General ( 54 persons )
Observer ( 140 persons )
Responsible for the census activities in part of
a governorate
Responsible for the census activities in
sheyakh of population about 50.000 people or
apart of a big sheyakh
Inspector ( 1354 persons )
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The General Structure of the Census Staff
Assistant ( 20000 persons )

• his work area includes about 1500
• units
• numbers and lists buildings
• blocks and establishments .
• counts families and their members.
• enters the name of the head of the
• household.
• allocates area sectors to counters and
• supervises their work.

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The General Structure of the Census Staff

• he lists establishments in his area
• of work ( about 300)
• records their characteristics in the
• census form.
• prepares their preliminary results

Registrar ( 22000 persons )

• collects the data of about 200 families
• in the forms for Families and living
  Conditions .
• prepares the preliminary results for
• the census of families and individuals in his
  work area.

The counter ( 96000 persons )
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The Role of GIS in Census Stages
Dividing Labor Regions
Disengagement between neighboring boundaries
Making an accurate reference for labor region
(map)
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