Population and Housing Census in Light of Disaster Management

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• Population and Housing Census in Light of
  Disaster Management

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Definitions

• Definition of Disaster
• A singular, large, non-routine event that
  overwhelms local capacity to respond adequately
• - natural disasters generally short-lived
  events but long-term consequences
• - man made disasters long-term events and
  long-term intervention

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Population at risk

• Assessing population at risk requires linkage
  between
• Population data by location
• Frequency and severity of a specific kind of
  hazard
• Coping capacity (resilience) of subsystems in
  that location

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Data needs

• Data needs in responding to population crisis
• - Where is the event occuring
• - How many people are affected

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Census as source of data

• Requirements
• Regular censuses
• Small area statistics
• Current and accurate digital boundary maps
• Geo-referenced data
• Core topics
• Age
• Gender
• Economic attributes

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Census as source of data

• Requirements (continued)
• Core topics (continued)
• Education
• Ethno-cultural characteristics (religion,
  ethnicity)
• Household structure (families)
• Housing characteristics
• Census micro-data for special analysis