1. Recommended Population and Housing Census Topics 2020
Session 7 :
Recommended Population and Housing Census Topics 2020
Regional Workshop on Censuses, Kuala Lumpur, June 2018

2. Population census topics
Eight categories
Geographic and internal migration characteristics
Household and family characteristics
Demographic and social characteristics
Disability characteristics
Fertility and mortality
Educational characteristics
Economic characteristics
Agricultural characteristics (ongoing discussion with Ministry of Agriculture)

3. Geographic and Internal migration characteristics
Nine topics in this class
Place of usual residence
Place where present at time of census
Place of birth
Duration of residence
Place of previous residence
Place of residence at a specified date in the past
Total population
Locality
Urban and rural

4. Characteristics of International migration
Four topics in this class
Country of birth
Country of citizenship
Citizenship
Year or period of living

5. Household and family characteristics
Three topics in this class
Relationship to the reference person in the household
Household and family composition
Household and family status

6. Demographic and social characteristics
Nine topics in this class
Sex
Age
Marital status
Religion
Language (Tetum, English, Indonesia and Portuguese)
Disability status (walking, seeing, Hearing and Mental/Intelectual

7. Fertility and mortality
Eight topics in this class
Children ever born alive
Children living
Date of birth of last child born
Births in the past 12 months
Deaths among children born in the past 12 months
Age, date of duration of first marriage
Age of mother at birth of first child born alive
Household deaths in the past 12 months

8. Educational characteristics
Four topics in this class
Literacy for all (Tetum, English, Portuguese and Bahasa Indonesia )
School attendance
Educational attainment
Field of education and training and educational qualifications

9. Economic characteristics
Six topics in this class
Labour force status
Status in employment
Occupation
Industry
Place of work
Institutional sector of employment

10. Agriculture
Ongoing discusion topics in this class (Plan 2019 Census Agriculture)

11. Housing census topics
Core topics for housing unit as the unit of enumeration
Occupancy status
Ownership
Number of Room
Water supply system
Source of Drinking water
Type of Toilet
Sewage disposal
Bathing facilities
Kitchen
Cooking fuel
Lighting and/or electricity
Construction material for outer walls
Draft Questionnaire PHC 2015
Draft Questionnaire PHC 2020