This guidance note details how modelled population estimates can support national statistics offices in planning, conducting and performing quality assurance checks during the census exercise.
Press release
New UNFPA projections predict calamitous impact on women’s health as COVID-19 pandemic continues
28 April 2020Implications of COVID-19 for Older Persons: Responding to the Pandemic
Resource date: 24 April 2020
Author: UNFPA
This technical brief provides guidance on the recommended questions for inclusion in censuses in order to improve the quality and comparability of data on disability and international migration. It also encourages the inclusion of questions on age at first marriage, type of marriage, and registration status of the marriage in the 2020 round of census.
This technical brief provides an overview on assessing the quality of data collected in a census. It details common methods and errors found in post-enumeration quality assessment. It also offers examples from countries that have embarked on a post-enumeration survey.
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Italian assistance helps UNFPA protect vulnerable migrant women, youth in Sudan
13 Apr 2020Small Area Estimation
Better Data for More Effective Policies and Programmes
Publication date: 31 January 2020
Author: UNFPA
This brochure describes a method of Small Area Estimation that combines census and household survey data. It also presents a case study based on data from Nepal. The case study illustrates the use of census as well as demographic and health survey data to generate estimates of three family planning related indicators for Village Development Committees and Municipalities in rural and urban areas, respectively.
UNFPA’s Population Data Thematic Fund (Pop Data Fund) addresses long standing shortfalls in population data and related human capacity. The Pop Data Fund expands the scope and quality of modern census and registry data, increases the use of geo-referenced population data to accelerate progress towards the SDGs, and advances the objectives of UNFPA’s mandate.
World population trends
Resource date: 31 August 2017
It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to 1 billion – then in just another 200 years or so, it grew sevenfold...
Census
Resource date: 31 August 2019
A population and housing census is among the most complex and massive peacetime exercises a nation can undertake. It requires careful planning, resourcing and implementation...