1. 2010 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS – MALAYSIA
Mr. ismail abdullah
Ms. hartini yaacob
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS MALAYSIA
BANGKOK, 14 MAY 2010

2. INTRODUCTION Commence July 6 to August 22, 2010
Canvass about 29 mil. inhabitants
The 5th. Census since 1963
Approved by Cabinet on April 22, 2009
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3. To provide population and housing data at various geographical level
To use as inputs for population estimates and projection, as well as for policy formulation
OBJECTIVES

4. Administrative & Finance
PLANNING PHASE :
Year 2008 : Establishment of Census Planning Team that comprises of committees, each of which with respective TOR
Planning & Implementation
Frame & Mapping
Communication & Coordination
Publicity & Data Dissemination
Technical (State Offices)
Quality Control
Tabulation, Analysis & Report
Post Enumeration Survey
SUPPORT
Administrative & Finance
Computer Processing

5. Appointment of Commissioning personnel
YEAR 2009
Government Approval:
Budget
Census Reference Date
Questionnaire Type (long or short)
Appointment of Commissioning personnel
(Census Act 1960)
Pilot Test

6. YEAR 2010 Updated Frame & maps
Nationwide publicity: Bunting/ banners / calendars etc; mass & electronic media – till August 2010
Finalized Quality control system
Finalized Processing and tabulation system
Recruitment of enumerators and supervisors (field operations and data processing)
Training:
Training of trainers – May 2010
Supervisors & Enumerators – June 2010
Documents & Kits despatched to States/ Districts – May 2010
Census Dry Run – May 2010

7. COMPARISON BETWEEN 2000 & 2010 ACTIVITIES YEAR 2000 YEAR 2010
Census Date
5 July
6 July
Collection Period
5-22 July (3 weeks)
6 July – 22 August (7 weeks)
No. of EBs
52,000
75,000
No. of Enumerators
26,000
No. of Supervisors
7,400
3,900
Data Collection Method
Face-to-face
Multi-modal:
Face-to-face, DOPU
E-Census
Approach
De Jure
Questionnaire
-Long-form
-Conventional
-ICR
Budget (RM)
192 mil.
202 mil.

8. `REMEMBER …. JULY 6 2010’ THANK YOU for lending your ears

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