1. Technical Coordination Group Budapest, Hungary
2021 round of population and housing censuses – future TCG meetings

2. Background for planning
Draft mandate "…to exchange experience, share best practices and harmonise methodologies and definitions on a regional level for the 2021 population and housing census round…"
Thorough understanding of relevant methodologies, definitions, requirements and quality issues for different methodologies

3. Future meetings
Suggest to first organise a series of meetings based on the following principles:
Cover broad phases of the Population and Housing census
Each broad phase should take into account relevant methodologies (traditional, administrative, combined, rolling census)
Selected new and challenging topics

4. Provisional plans based on TCG meeting
Methodology:
Traditional, register-based or Combined method
Data collection:
PAPI, CAPI, handheld devices, internet response method

5. Distribution, enumeration, monitoring, PES/evaluation method, etc.
Meeting II:
Preparations:
Legislation, questionnaire/administrative sources, manuals, training, communication & outreach, etc.
Meeting III
Enumeration:
Distribution, enumeration, monitoring, PES/evaluation method, etc.
Meeting IV
Processing & analysis:
Data capture, first checks, OCR, coding & classification, imputation, validation, quality assurance, etc.
Meeting V:
Dissemination:
First results, tabulation, final results, micro-data, disclosure control, etc.
Methodology
Traditional
Register-based
Combined
Rolling
Data collection modes

6. Meeting II: Preparations
Tradional:
Legislation, questionnaire, manuals, training, communication & outreach, etc.
Register/Combined:
Legislation, consensus, availability and quality of administrative sources to cover relevant topics, unique identifiers, linking rules/procedures, interoperability, quality,
General topics
Georeferenced data
Sensitive questions
Diaspora
Methodology
Traditional
Register-based
Combined
Rolling
Data collection modes

7. Meeting III: Enumeration/data collection
Traditional:
Distribution, enumeration, monitoring, PES/evaluation method, etc.
Register/Combined:
IT requirements, reference period, evaluation method, etc.
General:
Georeferenced data
Sensitive questions
Diaspora
Methodology
Traditional
Register-based
Combined
Rolling
Data collection modes

8. Meeting IV: Processing & analysis
Data capture, first checks, OCR, coding & classification, imputation, validation, quality assurance, usual residence, PES/evaluation method, etc.
Evaluation method, usual residence,
Combining sources
Georeferenced data
Methodology
Traditional
Register-based
Combined
Rolling
Data collection modes

9. Meeting IV: Dissemination
First results, tabulation, final results, micro-data, disclosure control, etc.
Communication
Georeferenced data
Methodology
Traditional
Register-based
Combined
Rolling
Data collection modes

10. Timing of TCG meetings
Timing is key to allow careful and long term planning of activities, legislation and possible assistance for improving data collection
Consider further meetings
and topics based on outcomes
of first meetings

11. Other suggestions
Questionnaires to NSIs for mapping the state of census preparations during the lifetime of TCG
Parallel sessions with objective to share and develop common IT solutions?
Involve counterparts responsible for ensuring interoperability between registers in one meeting?