Shift in Methodology and Population Census Quality

Abstract

The article refers to the shift in methods to conduct a population census: from a conventional enumeration through a sample survey and a mixed approach to administrative data, as a new standard in statistics. The paper compares two Polish censuses of 2002 and 2011. It is aimed at quality assessment in the case of both: the traditional method (2002 census) and the combined approach (2011 census). The quality of census data is discussed with essential aims and objectives to provide reliable information on the population age and sex structure in detailed territorial division. Therefore, quality assessment is provided for the whole country and at regional level. First of all, coverage errors are considered. We use multiple sources of data and non-matching methods, in particular: demographic analysis based on previous censuses, vital statistics and a comparison with other existing sources. Different cross-sections according to sex, age and place of residence are considered. In each separate domain adequacy and divergence assessments are accompanied by an attempt to provide substantive explanations.

The Challenges of the Population Census Round of 2020. Outline of the Methods of Quality Assessment of Population Census Data1

“…He had in mind the Polish experience in this field and preparation of the Polish 2021 Census of Population and Housing. Some of the methods presented here were used in the last Polish population censuses, such as demographic analysis and post enumeration survey, small area estimation methods and imputation (Gołata, 2012(Gołata, , 2016Paradysz, 2010), but final solutions are not yet known. Nevertheless, he would like to draw attention to the following aspects connected with census quality assessment: 1.…”

“…In Poland, demographic analyses of censuses evaluation have been widely used. There are a number of publications devoted to evaluation of census quality results using demographic methods (Gołata, 2009(Gołata, , 2010(Gołata, , 2012(Gołata, , 2014(Gołata, , 2016Nowak, 2002Nowak, , 2008Paradysz, 2010, Strzelecki et al, 2002. The author will refer to some of them later, and begin with post enumeration survey (PES).…”

“…The author would like to refer here shortly to three papers: Gołata (2012Gołata ( , 2016, and Paradysz 2010, where some interesting aspects of census quality are discussed.…”

The Impact of Regional Government Financial Performance on Capital Expenditure

“…The population is the entire population is taken as a sample with the census method (Baffour et al, 2013;Golata, 2014). The study data was collected by used census method for the criteria of provincial government studied to published provincial government on budget outcomes contained in the Directorate-General of Regional Fiscal Balance and meet the completeness of data for variables studied.…”

Implementation of inclusive education in Ghana: The mission of SENCos

“…Kothari and Garg (2014) noted that the census survey method provides a study with better results than a sample survey. The relatively limited number of the SENCos in the three Regions further influenced the use of the census survey, as supported by Gołata (2016).…”