CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE

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CENSUS OPERATIONS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN

• CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE
• Advocacy Workshop
• September 5th, 2007
• Juba

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Outline census topics

• Household and family characteristics
• Demographic and social characteristics
• Geographical and internal migration
  characteristics
• Fertility and mortality
• Educational characteristics
• Economic characteristics
• Disability characteristics
• Agriculture

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CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE

• NAME
• Name is not of any utility in census data
  analysis. However in the process of enumeration,
  it is captured to make sure that no member of the
  household is enumerated twice. It also helps the
  interview by referring to household members by
  name.

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HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS

• RELATIONSHIP TO HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD
• This question enables us know the composition of
  a household once the relationship between the
  head of the household and other members is
  established

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DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS

• SEX
• Responses on sex help in determining the sex
  ratio (Male/Female) of the population.
• AGE
• Age structure determines the needs of the
  population and potential for growth. This is
  necessary for policy formulation regarding the
  entire population and the requirements of
  age-specific groups.
• MARITAL STAUS
• Information on marital status is very useful in
  fertility studies. It enables us understand
  various fertility levels. This in turn has
  consequences on population growth.

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DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS Cont.

• AGE AT FIRST MARRIAGE
• Life marital status age at first marriage is
  strongly related to fertility. The ages in which
  women in particular, go into first marriage
  determine fertility levels, the earlier a woman
  goes into marriage in life, the more children she
  will likely give birth to.
• LIVE BIRTHS
• Live birth information provides data on the
  lifetime fertility of each woman, which is used
  for the estimation of age-specific fertility
  rates and other fertility indicators. This has
  impacts on overall population growth rate.

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DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS Cont.

• CHILDREN ALIVE
• Information on children living provides data on a
  womans lifetime fertility that impacts on the
  prevailing population growth rate.
• IS BIOLOGICAL MOTHER ALIVE/LIVING WITH MOTHER
• These questions seek to determine the incidence
  of orphanhood. They are useful in estimating
  mortality which in turn enables us to assess
  health-care delivery programs. It is particularly
  directed at respondents that less than 14 years
  of age. If such a respondent is not living with
  their own mother it means the mother could have
  died, although not necessarily the only reason.

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DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS Cont.

• BIRTH LAST 12 MONTHS/INFANT MORTALITY
• These two questions seek to jointly measure
  levels of fertility and infant mortality, which
  is a good measure, of the socio-economic,
  development of any country. The questions
  provide data that have policy implications on
  basic developmental issues.

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SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS

• NATIONALITY
• Data on nationality are useful for the study of
  problems associated with the legal status and
  civil rights of immigrants and other
  non-citizens. They are useful in determining
  comparative rates of naturalization among
  foreign-born persons.

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MIGRATION

• STATE OF BIRTH
• In relation to place of usual residence.
  Information on place of birth is useful in the
  investigation of internal migration. Results of
  analysis of such data reveal migration trends
  between regions and rural and urban areas.
• REGION OF ORIGIN
• Place of origin is somewhat outside conventional
  census variables. It is true that data on place
  of origin may be useful in studies of conflict,
  management and resolution, in view of the
  settler/indigene syndrome that has newly engulfed
  the country.

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MIGRATION Cont.

• STATE OF USUAL OF RESIDENCE
• DURATION OF RESIDENCE
• PLACE OF LAST MOVEMENT
• These questions are all correlating to migration.
  They provide additional data on internal
  migration.

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DISABILITY

• Disability data provides information on the
  numbers, distribution, types of disabilities,
  accomplishments, problems and needs of disabled
  persons. Such data are useful in policy and
  planning purposes.

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EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• LITERACY
• Data on literacy distinguishes between literate
  and illiterate persons. Ability to read and write
  with understanding is without regard to school
  attendance. Data on literacy are useful in
  formulating educational policy and for planning
  purposes.
• CURRENT SCHOOLING STATUS
• Data on schooling status provides insight into
  the proportion of persons of school age attending
  or ever attended school to various levels. Such
  data are useful in educational planning.

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EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS Cont.

• HIGHEST LEVEL OF EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
• Information on level of educational attainment is
  useful in determining the educational qualities
  of the population and also the performance of
  educational policies.

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EMPLOYMENT

• WORK STATUS (IN THE LAST WEEK)
• This question seeks to determine the proportion
  of the population engaged in active economically
  productive employment at the time of the census.
  Data generated are useful in computing the labor
  force both employed or not employed within the
  population.
• TYPE OF WORK (OCCUPATION)
• Data generated on occupation reveal the major
  economic activities of the population and the
  overall driving force of the economy.

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EMPLOYMENT Cont.

• MAIN PRODUCT/SERVICE (INDUSTRY)
• Like occupation industry data provide
  information on the major economic sectors of the
  country.

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EMPLOYMENT Cont.

• EMPLOYMENT STATUS
• Data on employment status provide number of
  persons that are economically active both in the
  formal and informal sectors of the economy.

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HOUSING QUESTIONS

• TYPE OF DWELLING UNIT
• This data provides the proportions of the
  population that live in conventional housing
  units and those that live in other forms of
  dwellings.
• These questions are intended to generate data on
  the quality of housing and facilities available.
  Other questions on facilities, like TV,
  telephone and electricity can be used to
  determine the proportions of population with
  access to basic services and generate data on the
  socioeconomic status of population groups by
  location.

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AGRICULTURE

• At the household level, information is collected
  on whether any member of the household is engaged
  in own-account agricultural production activities
  at their place of usual residence or elsewhere.
• At the individual person level, information is
  collected to identify persons involved in
  agricultural activities during a longer period,
  such as a year.
• This information can be used to assess the main
  types of production in a country and form a frame
  for further studies.

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Household deaths in the past 12 months

• Information on household deaths in the past 12
  months classified by sex of deceased and age at
  death, is used to estimate the level and pattern
  of mortality in countries that lack satisfactory
  continuous death statistics from civil
  registration.
• It is important that all deaths to household
  members occurring during the 12 months preceding
  enumeration be reported as completely and as
  accurately as possible

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CENSUS OFFENSES

• A person who presents herself/himself to be
  counted more than once during the Census, is
  guilty of an offence.
• Any person who aids another to present
  herself/himself for double counting, is guilty
  of an offence.
• Any person who refuses to present herself/himself
  for counting, is guilty of an offence.

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CENSUS OFFENSES

• If it is discovered that a person or persons move
  from one place to another, because she/he/they
  want to be counted in that new place and as such
  add to the number of such people, they shall be
  guilty of an offence.
• Any person defacing or mutilating any Census
  documents, is guilty of an offence.
• Any census worker who discloses information to
  non-census staff is guilty of an offence
• All these offences carry jail terms, fines, or
  both.

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