1. CENSUS 2013
Key experiences
Budapest, June 2017

2. Timing, methodology and legal basis
Census of Population, households and dwellings in BiH was conducted from 1th to 15th of October 2013.
Census was conducted by conventional methodology of total enumeration at the field, i.e. „door to door“ enumeration.
Law on Census of Population, households and dwellings in BiH 2013.
Census was conducted by three statistical institutions in BiH: Agency for Statistics of BiH in cooperation with Institute for Statistics of Federation of BiH and Institute for Statistics of Republika Srpska. 2

3. International standards
Census in BiH 2013 was under monitoring of International monitoring team (IMO)
Methodological basis for Census were UN/CES recommendations
Questionnaires included all core topic questions of abovementioned recommendations
Control List (P-3 questionnaire)
Questionnaire for dwellings and households (P-2 questionnaire)
Questionnaire for persons (P-1 questionnaire) 3

4. Questionnaire for persons 4
Besides questions on person, questionnaire covered significant set of questions on refugees and displaced persons

5. Questionnaire for dwelling and household 5
Besides the questions on dwelling and household, questionnaire for dwelling and household covered the set of questionnaires on buildings in which dwelling was as well as basic questions on agriculture.

6. Field work 30 members of cantonal census commissions
625 members of municipal census commissions
36 state instructors
184 entity instructors
2.509 municipal instructors
enumerators
Census covered enumeration areas, in total.
To assess the phases of enumeration IMO MG was supported with team of 27 international observers, present at the field across the country with mandate to observe the work of all participants in Census and monitor if data collection is processed in compliance with international standards. In observation period, each municipality was visited at least once and meetings were held with all municipal commission at least once. More than (1.093) interviews were monitored, which corresponds to enumeration of approximately persons.
SMS monitoring
Call center – support for state instructors
Call center - support for citizens 6

7. Data Processing Centre- DPC/COM 7
STOREHOUSE
6 EMPLOYEES

8. Data Processing Centre- DPC/COM 8
SCANNING
MANUAL PREPARATION
12 OPERATORS
160 OPERATOTS
OCR PROCESSING
II SHIFTS
120 OPERATORS

9. Data entry Scanning of questionnaires OCR reading/recognition
- Scanning and automatic recognition of questionnaire types
- Automatic OCR reading
- Detection of insufficiently read numbers (Tile operator)
- Automatic FuzzyMatch
- Completion of response (operator for final operations)
Final checking of potential insufficiently read fields (Operator supervisor). 9

10. Data processing
Determination of valid questionnaires for further processing
Preliminary corrections of geographical variables
Determination of resident status
Data editing and imputation
Coding of textual characteristics 10

11. Releasing the Census results 11
– The Final results of Census of Population, households and dwellings in BiH released
– The rest of the tables published, with data at settlement level, crossed tables publihed as well.
1 month period
1 month period

12. Data download by users 1 month period after release
• Ethnicity/nationality, religion, mother tongue
• Age, sex, marital status, fertility
• Households and families
• Educational statistics • Census of Population, households and dwellings in BiH
• Migrations
• Dwellings, buildings, living conditions
• Economic characteristics
• Invalidity 12

13. Delays Delay with the Law on Census Amendments to the Law on Census
Different positions between statistical institutions in BiH during questionnaire design – formulation of sets of questions that should determine resident status
Delay in adoption of “Unified program for Census data editing” 13

14. Experiences of Census participants
For more then 20 years BiH did not conduct Census
Insufficient personnel with experience in conducting the Census
Introduction of technologies such as OCR/ICR technology
Probabilistic method of data processing (Fellegi- Holt metod)
One of the most important results of Census is experience gained for personnel in all three statistical institutions in BiH
On time adoption of regulations without possibility to predict the result 14

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