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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
Baltic Sea Registers Conference 2000
TALLINN
March 13-14, 2000
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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
OVERVIEW

• General information

• Statistics Lithuania - the leading institution of
  official statistics

• Statistical information system

• Preparatory work for the Census

• Use of administrative registers

• Plans for the future

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
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STATISTICS LITHUANIA

• Total area 65.3 thou. sq.km.
• Population 3698.5 thou.
• Males 47.2
• Females 52.8
• Urban 68,2
• Rural 31,8
• population density 57
• (population per 1 sq. km)

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
GENERAL ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICS
IN THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA ARE REGULATED BY

• The Law on Statistics, passed by Parliament on 23
  December 1999
  
• Provisions of Statistics Lithuania, approved by
  the Government of the Republic of Lithuania in
  1995 (amendments are under preparation)
  
• The Law on the Overall Population and Housing
  Census, passed by Parliament on June 10, 1999

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA PROVIDES

• confidentiality of personal data

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA PROVIDES

• confidentiality of personal data
• professional equity of statisticians Statistics
  Lithuania is a state institution established to
  the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
  

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA PROVIDES

• confidentiality of personal data
• professional equity of statisticians Statistics
  Lithuania is a state institution established to
  the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
  
• access to statistical data for the public at
  large as well as to the governmental institutions
  and those of public administration
  

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA PROVIDES

• Statistics Lithuania receives, aggregates and
  analyses statistical data about the population,
  demographic and environmental processes as well
  as about activities of enterprises, their
  production, commercial and financial profile and
  conditions

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA PROVIDES

• Statistics Lithuania receives, aggregates and
  analyses statistical data about the population,
  demographic and environmental processes as well
  as about activities of enterprises, their
  production, commercial and financial profile and
  conditions
• the leading role of Statistics Lithuania in
  implementing a unified state policy is organising
  and handling the state statistics and statistical
  registers

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA PROVIDES

• institutional statistics is also compiled and
  realised by ministries and other institutions
  (Bank of Lithuania and others)

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
STATISTICS LITHUANIA - ORGANIZATION CHART
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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
OBJECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE
TO DEVELOP A STATISTICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

• flexible

• up-to-date

• integrated into the European Statistical system

• an integral part of the information system of the
  state

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
STATISTICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

• coding of statistical indicators (about 45
  thousand including sub-indicators)

• set-up of the central statistical database

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Register of statistical indicators (ROI)
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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
OTHER PENDING ISSUES

• Overall Population and Housing Census (April,
  2001)

• Overall Agricultural Census (2002)

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
THE 2001 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS IN
LITHUANIA
APRIL 5, 2001
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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
GENERAL DECISIONS FOR CENSUS 2001

• Enumeration in traditional way - interviewing by
  enumerator in dwellings

• Use of data from registers

• Population

• Real Estate

• Administrative units, Residential areas and
  streets

• Legal Units

• Statistical Legal Units

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
GENERAL DECISIONS FOR CENSUS 2001

• Use of optical character recognition technique
  (scanners) for data capture

• Use of automatic and mixed coding

• Use of international classifications (ISCED,
  ISCO-88, NACE)

• Data confidentiality and security

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
DATA FROM REGISTERS WILL BE USED
BEFORE THE CENSUS

• POPULATION REGISTER

• REAL ESTATE REGISTER

• ADMINISTRASTIVE UNITS, RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND
  STREETS REGISTER

• for creation of Census areas

• preparation of cartographic material

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
AFTER THE CENSUS
POPULATION REGISTER

• name and surname

• personal identification code

REAL ESTATE REGISTER

• address of the building

• owner of the building (rural area)

• number of floors in the building

• number of dwellings in the building

• type of the building

• construction material of outer walls

• useful floor space of the dwelling

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
AFTER THE CENSUS
LEGAL UNITS REGISTER will be used
FOR CODING OF INDUSTRY (BRANCH OF ECONOMIC
ACTIVITY)

• name of work place

• address of work place

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
AFTER THE CENSUS
ADMINISTRASTIVE UNITS, RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND
STREETS REGISTER will be used for
CODING OF GEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS

• place of usual residence

• place where the person is present at census
  moment

• place of birth

• place of previous residence

DATA TABULATION

• total population

• urban and rural

• populated locality

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY APRIL 2000
The aim - testing of all systems of the Census

• quality of project plan

• methodology material

• questionnaire

• instructions

• training programme

• cartographic material (maps for enumerators)

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY APRIL 2000

• organisation of field (forms, workload for
  enumerators)

• control of the work in every stage

• comprehension by society of the forthcoming
  census

• quality of registers

• Population, Real Estate, Legal Units

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY APRIL 2000

• hardware and software, scanning

• quality of classifications (education,
  occupations, economic activity, etc)

• automatic and mixed coding

• tabulation and data analysis

• Oracle

• SAS

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
CREATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM OF POPULATION
CENSUS 2001

• specification of the project

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
CREATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM OF POPULATION
CENSUS 2001

• specification of the project
• creation of data base

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
CREATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM OF POPULATION
CENSUS 2001

• specification of the project
• creation of data base
• preparation of software (for creation of various
  lists from registers, for creation of ORACLE DB,
  for data control and editing, for data
  processing, etc)

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
CREATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM OF POPULATION
CENSUS 2001

• preparation of scanning system

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
CREATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM OF POPULATION
CENSUS 2001

• preparation of scanning system
• acquisition and preparation of software for data
  analysis and dissemination
  

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
CREATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM OF POPULATION
CENSUS 2001

• preparation of scanning system
• acquisition and preparation of software for data
  analysis and dissemination
  
• etc

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
THE MAIN PROBLEMS OF THE PREPARATORY WORK FOR
CENSUS 2001

• WHICH OF POPULATION TO COUNT

• de jure
• de facto

• ACTUAL PLACE OF RESIDENCE DOES NOT COINCIDE WITH
  THE PLACE OF REGISTRATION

• PERSON OR HOUSEHOLD OWNS MORE THAN ONE DWELLING

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
PROBLEMS

• CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION OF LITHUANIA
• now
• 10 counties
• 56 municipalities
• 44 districts
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• 107 towns, about 21,500 rural settlements
• after administrative reform in year 2003
• 93 municipalities
• changes in borders of counties
• Year 2000 - first stage!

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
THE POPULATION GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

• should be the basis for statistics related to

• population

• housing

• buildings

• to have information on small geographical areas
  demographic statistics

• number of population

• structure (sex, age, etc)

• basis for next population and housing census

• for data presentation

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
THE POPULATION GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

• problems related to the census issues of
  Population Geographic Information system should
  be tackled

• no experience

• financial problems

• technical assistance

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STATISTICS LITHUANIA
THANK YOU VERY MUCHFOR YOURATTENTION AND
INTEREST
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