1. UN EXPERT GROUP MEETING ON 2010 WORLD PROGRAMME ON POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUSES New York – August Susan Linacre Australian Bureau of Statistics

2. Working Group 1
Focus: Topics for inclusion, standards,
definitions and classifications, and guidance
in relation to enumeration of specific topics

3. Potential New Topics:
Information and Communication Technology
Environment
Others
Agriculture (Technical Subgroup 2-1)
Health, mortality, leisure and household budget

4. Geographical and migration related:
Defining total population: more explicit
standards, particularly for usual residence
Describing population: guidance on treatment
of foreigner, year of arrival, multiple
citizenship, sensitive populations
Urban/rural

5. Family:
Multiple household families
Family nucleus: eg grandparent/grandchild

6. Education:
School attendance v enrolment
Literacy
Vocational training

7. Economically active population:
Employment/Unemployment:
comparability with LFS data
Informal sector
Unpaid volunteer work

8. Disability:
Use of WHO ICF framework
Selection of elements of the framework
based on purpose
Identification of essential domains and
additional domains
Issue of number of questions required

9. Housing:
Review of basic topics eg floor space
Rental and owner occupant housing costs