IDENTIFICATION OF AND CONSULTATIONS WITH CENSUS DATA USERS

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IDENTIFICATION OF AND CONSULTATIONS WITH CENSUS
DATA USERS

• The Mauritian experience
• Presented by Ms. Melanie Luchmun
• Central statistics office
• Republic of Mauritius
• 14-17 September 2010

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Mauritius island

• Diagram 1. LOCATION OF MAURITIUS ISLAND IN THE
  INDIAN OCEAN

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BACKGROUN NOTES ON THE REPUBLIC OF MAURITIUS

• 500 miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean
• Dependencies Rodrigues Island ,the Agalega
  Islands
• Ethnic group Indo-Mauritian, Creole,
  Sino-Mauritian, Franco-Mauritian
• Language spoken English is the official language
  , French is also common spoken and creole which
  is a broken French
• HDI 0.804

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HOUSING AND POPULATION CENSUS 2010 ROUND

• The Census 2010 round was first scheduled for
  2010 but postponed to 2011 due to general
  election in May 2010
• Census 2011 will be taken in two distinct rounds
  the Housing Census followed by the Population
  Census
• The preparation started in 2008 with
  IDENTIFICATION of census data users.

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IDENTIFICATION OF CENSUS DATA USERS

• Census data users /stakeholders are the people
  who will reap the benefit of census outputs
• Census should produce statistics that are
  relevant to data users/stakeholders
• Identification of census data users is an
  important step in the census cycle
• Identification spot users which will be involved
  in the consultation phase

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Census Cycle

• Diagram 2 The Census Cycle

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IDENTIFICATION OF CENSUS DATA USERS

• How does THE CSO identify census data
• users?
• The CSO keeps a record of all organization who
  buys CENSUS products and keep an updated list of
  all individuals who request for information on
  CENSUS DATA

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IDENTIFICATION OF CENSUS DATA USERS

• Census data users in Mauritius are
• The public sector ministries and governmental
  departments
• The private sector
• The general public
• Researchers
• Students
• The media

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USER CONSULTATION-TOPIC SELECTION

• The producer-user dialogue benefits all
• It increases the utilization of the data produced
• Enhance statistical literacy-better and more
  effective use of statistics
• Users knowledge about constraints of the national
  statistical system increased
• More advocate and greater support for the
  national statistical system.

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USER CONSULTATION-TOPIC SELECTION

• CONSULTATION STATEGY USED BY CSO
• AFTER IDENTIFICATION OF STAKEHOLDERS FOR CENSUS
  2011
• July 2008 a letter was sent to all ministries and
  government departments informing them about the
  coming census and asking them to inform the CSO
  about their data needs
• All ministries and government departments were
  contacted (48 in all)
• Out of the 48 ministries and departments
  contacted 9 had one or several requests

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USER CONSULTATION-TOPIC SELECTION

• 25 requests were received from the 9 ministries
  and governmental departments
• A technical committee was set up to consider the
  appropriateness of including stakeholders
  requests in the final Housing and Population
  Census questionnaires

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USER CONSULTATION-TOPIC SELECTION

• Some requests were rejected for the following
  reasons
• The information were already included in the
  questionnaires
• The information can be captured by other surveys
  carried out by the CSO
• The information can be captured by surveys
  conducted by other ministries
• The requests were not suitable for census (asking
  too much detailed info)

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USER CONSULTATION-TOPIC SELECTION

• A meeting to present, discuss and finalize the
  proposed questionnaires was held on July 2009 and
  representatives from each ministry were invited
  to attend

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USER CONSULTATION-DISSEMINATION

• The CSO has planned to hold a meeting with the
  stakeholders ( public sector, private sector,
  researcher, trade unions, the media etc) to
  present the final questionnaires and to
  investigate about the stakeholders needs in
  terms of census products
• The CSO will conduct a dissemination workshop
  with the stakeholders as well as a user survey

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

• KINDLY MAIL ME YOUR QUERIES ON THE FOLLOWING
  EMAIL-ADDRESS mvluchmun_at_mail.gov.mu