1. Country Practices on Census Evaluation: 2000 Census Round Pres. 1

2. Objectives of the Questionnaire
To better understand census evaluation activities at the country level
To facilitate the sharing of experience on methods of census evaluation among countries in the region
Total of 12 respondents

3. Respondent Profile: 2000 Round & PES
Country
2000 Round
Bahrain N
Sudan N
Egypt N
Syria N
Iraq Y
Tunisia
Jordan Y
Yemen
Libya
1995 – Y?
Mauritania Y
Morocco
Palestine
Y = 6
1997 – Y
N = 6 3

4. Respondent Profile: 2010 Round & PES
Country
2010 Round
Bahrain
2010 – Y
Sudan N
Egypt Y
Syria Y
Iraq
Tunisia ?
Jordan
2014 – Y
Yemen N
Libya
2006 – Y
Mauritania
2011 – Y
Morocco
Palestine Y
Y = 9
N = 3 4

5. Objective of Evaluation (2000 Round)
Yes Count
Measure coverage errors: undercount; overcount
Iraq
Jordan
Libya
Mauritania Morocco Palestine
Measure content errors: data quality -
Adjust census results
Mauritania Palestine

6. Objective of Evaluation (2010 Round)
Yes Count
Measure coverage errors: undercount; overcount
Bahrain
Egypt
Iraq
Jordan
Libya
Mauritania Morocco Palestine
Measure content errors: data quality
Mauritania
Adjust census results
Palestine

7. N=6 countries conducted PES 2000 round Organization and Planning
Yes Count
Planning & Implementing Agency
National Statistical or Census Office
All
Census team and PES team different
Y = Jordan, Palestine
N = Iraq, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco
Independent organization/other -
Part of census budget
Adequate funding

8. Operationalising Independence
Yes Count
PES planning done by:
independent group
Jordan Palestine
same team
Iraq
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
PES implementation independent from Census implementation
Different set of supervisors and enumerators
PES held 1 month after census
Jordan
PES field teams assigned different EAs than census
Palestine
Independent data processing

9. Recruitment of PES Staff
Yes Count
Recruitment from
Census staff
Jordan
Libya
Mauritania
Palestine
Others
Staff of NSO
Morocco
Teachers from mapping & listing stage
Iraq
Selection criteria
Best from census
Experience from field during census

10. Training of PES Staff Yes Count
Training duration: enumerators
1-3 days
Iraq
Morocco
Palestine
7 days
Jordan
10 days
Mauritania
15 days
Libya
Training duration: supervisors
45 days

11. Sample Design Yes Count
Number of stages
1 stage
Palestine
2 stages
Iraq, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco
Sample size first stage units (PSUs)
325 blocks (Jordan)
50 blocks per governorate (Iraq)
10% ?? (Libya)
10,000 households (Morocco)
All Governorates and locality types (Palestine)
Sample size
5% of households (Jordan)
832 blocks representing 1.3% of blocks (Iraq)
60 EAs drawn proportionate to size (Mauritania)
160 EAs based on random sampling (Morocco)
154 EAs representing 4.7% of all EAs (Palestine)
Stratification
Urban-Rural (Iraq, Libya, Mauritania)

12. Domains of Analysis Yes Count
National only
Libya
National, Urban-Rural
Iraq
Jordan
Mauritania
Morocco
Palestine
Administrative areas (Governorates)
Zones (1-Nouakchott, 2-other cities, 3-rural areas)

13. Matching Procedures Yes Count
Method
Computer
Iraq
Manual
Jordan
Morocco
Palestine
Both
Libya
Mauritania
Rules were documented
Made field reconciliation visits

14. Coverage Measures Yes Count
Coverage rate only
Iraq
Jordan
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Net coverage rate only
Palestine

15. Use of PES Results Yes Count
Report was produced
For lay users
Iraq
Libya
Palestine
Only for office use
Jordan
Mauritania
Morocco
Time to release results [from start of data collection]
One year or less [minimum = 20 days]
More than one year [1.5 years]
Used to adjust census results

16. Lessons Learned Morocco Palestine Need to use a representative sample
Importance of allocating adequate human and material resources
Palestine
Adjusting total population at locality level

17. Thank You!