CENSUS INFO PROGRESS IN MALAWI

Malawi intends to use CensusInfo as the dissemination platform of its 2008 Population and Housing Census.

TRAININGS A team of 3 NSO officers attended a UNSD organized workshop held in Maputo from 10-13th November 2009.One officer was funded by UNSD and the other 2 funded by UNFPA The aim of the workshop was develop participants’ capacities to use CensusInfo to its full potential as a platform for disseminating census data.

TRAININGS – cont’d A seminar on Census Data analysis was also held in Blantyre from July 2010 facilitated by G. Feeney The workshop was instrumental in finalising indicators for Fertility and nuptuality analytial report

TRAININGS – cont’d a National CensusInfo Training was organized from 29th November- 3rd December 2010 at NSO in Zomba. with technical assistance from UNSD This training for 10 NSO officers was intended to develop Malawi’s census technical teams’ capacities to adapt CensusInfo as a platform for disseminating census data

An output of the December 2010 workshop was a draft Malawi Census Info Database

INDICATOR FROM MALAWI CENSUSINFO An example of an indicator in Malawi Census Info database shown in the next slide is “population size by sex”

SELECTING INDICATOR

SELECTING AREA The indicator is available at national, regional and district level as shown in the next slide

SELECTING AREA

DATA SHEET VIEW The data for the stated indicator at national, regional and district levels is shown in data sheet view in the next slide

RETRIEVING DATA

PRESENTATION- MAP The same data shown in datasheet view is presented in form of a map, which is one of the unique features of CensusInfo

MAP PRESENTATION OF THE DATA

PRESENTATION - GRAPHS An example of a graph from the Indicator Total Fertility Rate also available in the database is shown in the next slide

USES Maps from Census Info were used in regional level census dissemination workshops. Plans are underway to create printed wall charts. Maps and Graphs like the ones presented will be part of the wall chart content

PROPOSED TIMELINES A draft database is currently available following the December 2010 workshop A meeting has been planned for Mid- Feb 2011 to finalise the database in terms of crosschecking indicator values Information to be included in the database will come from 2008 Census analytical reports which were finalised at the end of December 2010

SUMMARY Plans for web enabled version are underway. Expected release of the web version is Mid June Expertise from officers working on MASEDA( Malawi’s National DevInfo Database) will be used

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