Evolution of the person census and the estimation of population counts in New Zealand, United Kingdom, Italy and Israel

Bernardini, Antonella; Brown, James J.; Chipperfield, James O.; Bycroft, Christine; Chieppa, Angela; Cibella, Nicoletta; Dunnet, Gary; Hawkes, Michael F.; Hleihel, Ahmad; Law, Eleanor C.; Ward, Daniel L.; Zhang, Lichun

doi:10.3233/sji-220018

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“…For other countries, engaged in their respective census transformation programs, this led to considering the possibility of replacing the traditional coverage survey or Census with administrative registers. For example, the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel conducted a Register Survey for its current round of population census (see also Bernardini et al 2022;Zhang 2022), Office for National Statistics (2013Statistics ( , 2017 and ISTAT discuss replacing a Census with administrative registers. Natural disasters (e.g., Covid-2019) have led to the delay of censuses in many nations.…”

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Robust Statistical Estimation for Capture-Recapture Using Administrative Data

Chipperfield,

Chu,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Journal of Official Statistics

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The first key use of a nation’s Census is to count its resident population. A Census will have counting errors, often referred to as over-coverage and under-coverage. So it is common practice in many countries to conduct an independent count of its residents, a so-called coverage survey, and estimate or adjust for these counting errors within the capture-recapture framework. In recent times, many censuses and coverage surveys have faced challenges in counting the population efficiently and effectively due to rising costs, declining response rates, and respondent burden. This has led to a shift toward exploring the role that administrative registers could play in counting the population within the capture-recapture framework. Administrative registers are relatively inexpensive and can have high coverage of a nation’s population. This paper explores methods to overcome common problems with the use of administrative registers within this framework, including linking errors and scoping the register to only capture residents. These methods are empirically assessed in the context of the Australian population.

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Robust Statistical Estimation for Capture-Recapture Using Administrative Data

Chipperfield,

Chu,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Journal of Official Statistics

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“…Two different approaches that can be used by NSIs to produce census data using administrative sources are combined census and fully register based census (see, for instance, [ 9 ]). A detailed description of the two approaches is provided in [ 2 ]. The former, first used by Israel in 2008 (see [ 6 ]), makes massive use of administrative data in combination with coverage surveys, using census temporarily as the largest possible coverage survey.…”

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Statistical framework for fully register based population counts

Solari

Bernardini

Cibella

2023

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The increasing availability of registers or administrative archives has been a strong push towards moving from traditional censuses to combined censuses or even completely register based censuses. In this context, a statistical framework needs to be designed in order to delineate all the statistical issues of the new estimation process. To this aim, a population frame needs to be defined for both surveying and estimation phases. Sampling surveys should be designed for quality assessment and for improving the quality of the register based estimation process. Drawing on similar experiences, a formalisation of the population size estimation process fully based on administrative data is presented. An application to Italian estimation process is reported.

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