1. UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE ROUND OF POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS: International Standards and Contemporary Technologies Lusaka, Zambia, March PRESENTATION BY STATISTICS BOTSWANA

2. Kwenagape Kenny Mogotsinyane Thapelo Maruatona Eden Onyadile
The presentation is a collaborative effort of the four (4) Statistics Botswana Delegates
Grace Mphetolang
Kwenagape Kenny Mogotsinyane
Thapelo Maruatona
Eden Onyadile

3. Outline Introduction Strategic Objectives for the Census Operation
Census Operations Stages and Management Structures
Critical Milestones
Census Committees
Census Organizational Structure
Consultations with Stakeholders and Collaboration with Development Partners
Capacity Development
Communication Strategy
Quality Assurance
Adaptation of Latest Technologies
Plans for Outsourcing and Use of Technologies
Geospatial Tools During Pre-enumeration

4. I. Introduction Statistics Botswana
Autonomous body under the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning since April 2012
Operates within the jurisdiction of two (2) key legal instruments - Statistics Act (Cap 17:01) and Census Act (Cap 17:02)
Mainly funded by the Government; also assisted by domestic, regional, and international bodies and partners. Performance monitored and overseen by the board.
Has two arms in the organizational structure for statistical production; namely the Socio-Economics and Statistical and Technical Operations

5. Introduction (Cont’) PHC - 10 years interval consistently since 1971
Botswana Census, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, and 2011
Next census 2021
Botswana population was 2,024,094 from Census
Growth rate was 1.9 based on 2011 Census.
Projected population is 2,266,857 as at 2017

6. Introduction (Cont’)
Population Trends

7. II. Strategic Objectives for the Census Operation
Importance of Census undertaking
Constituency delimitation (Constitutional Provision)
Baseline data for policy formulation, programming and research
Data for development Frameworks e.g. NDP, V2036, etc.

8. III. Census Operations Stages and Management Structures
Census Project Document
Planning & Budgeting
Cartographic Exercise
Pilot
Enumeration
Post Enumeration Survey (PES)
Preliminary Results
Processing & Analysis
Dissemination

9. Census Operations Stages and Management Structures (Cont’)
Post Census Activities
Constituency Delimitation
Sampling Frame – (for Household Surveys and Agricultural Census)
Population Projections
Small area estimates (districts monographs)
Further analysis and research

10. IV. Critical Milestones
Cartographic Fieldwork
Pilot Census
Enumeration
Post Enumeration Survey (PES)?
Data Processing
Dissemination

11. Ministry of Finance and Development (Principal Investigator)
V. Census Committees
Ministry of Finance and Development
(Principal Investigator)
Census Central Committee
National Census Advisory Committee
Census Communication, Publicity and Advocacy Committee
Census Standing Committee
District Census Committee

12. VI. Census Organizational Structure, 2011
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Finance & Development Planning
Government Statistician
Census Coordinator
Chief Census Advisor
Chief Statistician Instruments Development
Chief Statistician Communication, advocacy & Publicity
Chief Statistician Cartography & GIS
Chief Statistician Data Processing
Principal Statistician Quality Assurance & Logistics

13. VII. Consultations with Stakeholders and Collaboration with Development Partners
Engage data users (topics) - Workshops
Engage vulnerable groups

14. Government Institutions Local Government Institutions UNFPA NGOs
Consultations with Stakeholders and Collaboration with Development Partners (Cont’)
Collaboration
Government Institutions
Local Government Institutions
UNFPA
NGOs
Private sector

15. VIII. Capacity Development
Institutional memory
Peer review (regoinal)
Capacitating census personnel through 2020 RPHC Workshops
Short term trainings

16. IX. Communication Strategy
Reach out to all population
Media
Workshops
Roadshows
Schools

17. X. Quality Assurance
Check and confirm adequacy of census resource against the set and agreed sizes and quantum of resources:
Office space,
Staffing at Census Organizational structure
Field staff & calibre
Transport,
Facilities
Equipment, etc.

18. Quality Assurance (Cont’)
Check and confirm IT capacity commensurability with size of the project (software & hardware)
Ensure data processing of pilot census

19. XI. Adaptation of Latest Technologies
CAPI (enumeration, processing, validation, etc.)
Geo Media Smart Client (mapping)
Arc/GIS (frames, geospatial information, etc.)

20. XII. Plans for Outsourcing and Use of Technologies
Outsourced data processing in the past two census (2001 & 2011)
No plans to outsource anything for 2021 Census

21. XIII. Geospatial Tools During Pre-enumeration
Hardware and Software
maps
GPS
Satellite imagery
Aerial photographs

22. Thank you