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Digital Census Planning Checklist

This section provides a comprehensive planning checklist designed to guide countries through the complex process of planning and implementing a digital population and housing census. The checklist ensures that all critical aspects are considered and properly planned.

  1. Census Planning and Preparation
  2. GIS, Mapping and Enumeration Area Delineation
  3. Design of Census Questionnaires, Manuals and Procedures
  4. Pilot Census
  5. Census communication, publicity and advocacy
  6. Procurement and preparation of enumeration materials
  7. Field Operations and Enumeration
  8. Release of Census Results
  9. Post-enumeration survey (PES)
  10. Data processing
  11. Data analysis and report writing
  12. Census products
  13. Dissemination of results
  14. Evaluation
  15. Utilisation
  16. Documentation and archiving