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1. Project Planning and Management2. Geospatial Mapping3. Enumeration Instruments4. Data Capture5. Census Testing6. Recruitment and Training7. Deployment and Supervision8. Enumeration and Logistics9. Quality Assurance10. Census Analysis11. Partnerships12. Advocacy13. Procurement14. Post-Enumeration Survey15. Alternative Approaches16. Planning Checklist
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References and Resources​

  1. United Nations. (2025). Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Census. Revision 4. Available at: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/SeriesM/Series_M67Rev4en.pdf
  2. United Nations Statistics Division. (2010). Post-Enumeration Surveys Operational Guidelines. Available at: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/standmeth/handbooks/Manual_PESen.pdf
  3. UK Office for National Statistics. GitHub - ONSdigital/pes_match: A set of functions for cleaning and matching census data with Post Enumeration Survey data. Available at: https://github.com/ONSdigital/pes_match/tree/main
  4. UK Ministry of Justice. (2021). Splink: MoJ’s open source library for probabilistic record linkage at scale. Available at:. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/joined-up-data-in-government-the-future-of-data-linking-methods/splink-mojs-open-source-library-for-probabilistic-record-linkage-at-scale
  5. UK Office for National Statistics. CROW clerical matching system. Available at: https://github.com/ONSdigital/ons-crow
  6. Peter Benton. (2010). Trout, Catfish and Roach the Beginner's Guide to Census Population Estimates. Available at: https://docslib.org/doc/2577669/trout-catfish-and-roach-the-beginner-s-guide-to-census-population-estimates
  7. National Institute of Statistics Rwanda. RPHC5 Thematic Report: Post Enumeration Survey. Available at: https://www.statistics.gov.rw/data-sources/censuses/Population-and-Housing-Census/fifth-population-and-housing-census-2022/rphc5-thematic-reports/rphc5-thematic-report-post-enumeration-survey