Population%20and%20Housing%20Census%20in%20Afghanistan%20Round%202010

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Population and Housing Census in Afghanistan
Round 2010
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Census Dates

• September 2010, or
• Six months after elections to ensure smooth
  conduct free from any political clashes

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Planning

• Update of household listing
• Update of village lists
• Update of EA and CA Maps
• Office set up
• Regional Offices Set up (8 regions)
• District Census Offices Set up (398 districts)
• International Consultants Recruitment
• Electronic Data Processing (EDP) Expert
• Capacity Building Advisor

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• Security Assessment
• Preparation of strategies for security
  compromised areas
• Transport plan
• Preparation of Transportation Requirements and
  Strategy
• Preparation of Air and Ground Transport Contracts
  for Deliveries of Census Materials

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• Publicity plan
• Development of Media Communication Packages
• Delivery of Media Communication Packages
• First Media Wave
• 2nd Media Wave
• 3rd Media Wave
• Procurement plan and Requirements
• Finalization and Approval of General Procurement
  Requirements including ICT
• Delivery
• Quality check
• Inventory and Storage in Kabul Main Warehouse

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• Training plan
• Statistical Data analysis and interpretation
• Refresher training on Cartography and GIS staff
  for mapping
• Training of Regional Master Trainers, Senior
  Master Trainers, Provincial Statistics Officers
  on Census at CSO, Kabul
• Training of District Trainers, District Census
  Officers, and their Deputies, and Provincial
  Staff in 34 CSO Provincial Offices
• Training of Enumerators and Controllers in the
  District Offices
• Editors, Coders and Data Entry Operators Training
• Training of Database , Data Entry and IT section
  staff in CSPro and in other RDBMS
• Training of CSO staff in SPSS, STATA software for
  data analysis

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• Census Instruments
• Pre- testing of Questionnaires
• Pre - testing of manuals and forms
• Finalization and Printing of Questionnaires,
  Forms and EN,CN , PSO and DSO manuals
• Review of Census tables with key stakeholders
• Finalization of Census tabulation plan
• Revision and finalization of data entry code
  book

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• Pilot Census
• Appointment of Enumerators and Controllers
• Completion of Enumerators and Controllers lists
• Notification of Enumerators and Controllers with
  Official Letters
• Manual Editing and coding plan
• Geographic ID codes check, manual editing and
  coding shall be done prior to data entry and
  further computer processing

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• Data Processing plan
• Data Entry Operators Editors and Coders
  recruitment
• Development of data dictionary for the record
  layout of housing and household questionnaire
• Development of CSPro based data entry system to
  include data verification and range checks.
  Around 150 microcomputers will be available to
  capture the Census data
• Development of computer data editing and
  imputation procedures and programs
• Preparation of computer programs for tabulation

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• Data dissemination plan
• Print a) One volume of report for Afghanistan
  and one each for the 34 provinces (these include
  tables and analysis)
• b) Other print census dissemination
  products according to type of users (brochures,
  press releases, newspapers, etc)
• TV and radio announcements, plugs, interviews
  shall be scheduled highlighting the results of
  the census
• Workshop/Fora presentation of census results

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• Data dissemination plan

• Utilization of census data through Research
• Thematic maps and digital GIS databases will be
  done and will be properly disseminated to
  concerned users
• Data storage and Management

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• Total budget for the census
• The estimated budget for the entire 4 year
  program is approximately US 69 million

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Difficulties/Challenges

• Security issue
• About 39.97 of the districts have Security
  problem
• Consultation with governors and other local
  authorities that was done in 34 provinces 10
  provinces revealed security problems of different
  degrees
• Funding gap
• There was a short fall of funds in 2008. The
  activities that will be funded are the following
  
• Recruitment and payments of functionaries
• Printing of census materials
• Setting up of District Census Offices
• Transport of census materials
• Media outreach
• Data entry processing and analysis
• Publication and dissemination of results

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Difficulties/Challenges

• Voters registration
• Voters registration has been scheduled in 2008
• Registration is a political process and may
  affect the security of people who will be
  conducting the Census and as well as the
  cooperation of respondents
• Elections (presidential and parliamentary)
• Elections are political process and may affect
  the quality of the Census

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Methodology

• Enumerators will visit every household in every
  settlement in Afghanistan
• Will include the nomadic population of
  Afghanistan
• Will include population in institutional living
  quarters
• Will include those Afghans in diplomatic posts
  assigned outside Afghanistan

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Technology

• Mapping
• Use of ArcGIS Desk Top 9.1 Software.
• Use of ArcGIS Desk Top 9.2 Software.
• Use of very high Resolution Quick Bird satellite
  Imagery which was acquired for the thirty four
  provincial centers for Nahia, CA and EA
  delineation (Resolution color 2 meter black and
  white 0.6 meter).
• ArcGIS server Arc SDE for GIS Database.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database.

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• Data Capture
• Traditional Data Entry
• CSPro software (public open license by US Census
  Bureau) for data entry and verification
• Appropriate data processing software for
  tabulations and data analysis
• Appropriate project management software for
  progress monitoring

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Afghanistan Population and Housing Census in 2010
involve

• Data processing for over 28 million population.
• To be collected from about 5 million households
• Covering more than 21,000 EAs
• Situated across a geographical spread of 34
  provinces, 364 Districts, 34 provincial capitals,
  and over 42,000 villages
• Requiring a composite data processing cycle
  involving a) Housing data ( housing type,
  facilities , etc), and b) Population enumeration
  data (Demographic, social, cultural and economic
  structure of population )

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