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Resources and References

This section provides a comprehensive collection of resources, tools, and references to support your digital census planning and implementation. Whether you're looking for technical specifications, training materials, or additional reading, you'll find valuable resources here.

📚 Paper and Manuals​

UN Principles and Recommendations for population and housing Census. Revision 3.

Guidelines on the use of electronic data collection technologies in population and housing censuses.

United Nations Statistics Division, “Handbook on the Management of Population and Housing Censuses,” Revision 2, United Nations, New York, 2021

UN Handbook on geographic information systems and digital mapping

International Programs in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Division. The United States Agency for International Development, United Nations Population Fund. Released November 2021. Evaluating a Pilot Electronic Census. Select Topics in International Censuses

US Census Bureau, Developing a Census Communications Strategy

Statistics Canada, 2021 Census dissemintaion planning

NN group, F-Shaped Pattern of Reading on the Web

Post Enumeration Surveys Operational Guidelines, UN Secretariat, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics

Peter Benton, 2010. Trout, Catfish and Roach the Beginner's Guid to Census Population Estimates

US Census Bureau, Census Data Archiving and Presevation

US Census Bureau, Select Topics in International Censuses, Census Data Archiving and Preservation

🌐 Links to NSO websites and publications​

Statistics Botswana. 2021 Population & Housing Census project document

Namibia Statistics Agency. 2019-2020 census mapping basic report

National Institute of Statistics Rwanda: Thematic Report: Post Enumeration Survey

Pacific Community Statistics for Development Division. 2025a Documents available from 17th Pacific Statistics Methods Board meeting

Pacific Community Statistics for Development Division. 2025b Documents available from a sub-regional workshop on population and housing census in the Pacific

🔗 Links to Code/Applications​

ONS-UK CROW clerical matching system

ONS-UK Data-Linkage/pes_match: A set of functions for cleaning and matching census data with Post Enumeration Survey data

Ministry of Justice UK: Splink probabilistic matching