Some Aspects of Post Enumeration Surveys in Population Censuses in Poland and Germany

• Autorzy: Dorota Raczkiewicz

Warianty tytułu

Wybrane aspekty badań kontrolnych do spisów ludności w Polsce i Niemczech

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Population census is valuable data source of population and its structure. Although as every statistical survey, a census is not perfect quality and is biased of errors. Errors in the census results are classified into two general categories: coverage errors and content errors. Coverage errors are the errors that arise due to omissions or duplications of persons or housing units in the census enumeration. Content errors are errors that arise in the incorrect reporting or recording of the characteristics of persons, households and housing units enumerated in the census. Both kinds of errors can be assess by post enumeration survey. Population censuses in Poland and Germany conducted in this year have the similar methodology, both censuses are register based and random sample surveyed. Also both countries conducted post enumeration surveys several weeks after the main census. There are very detailed recommendation how to carry out the population census and the post enumeration surveys, proposed by EUROSTAT and UN. Poland and Germany comply with these recommendation in different degree. The aim of this paper is to compare post enumeration surveys and population censuses in Poland and Germany, to present problem with data quality and potential errors of censuses and to point at international recommendation on quality assessment of population censuses according to the UN and EUROSTAT. (fragment of text)

Opracowanie dotyczy jakości danych i potencjalnych błędów, jakie pojawiają się w spisach ludności. Dokonano w nim także porównania spisów ludności w Polsce i Niemczech, a także zasad i metodyki przeprowadzenia badań kontrolnych do spisów ludności w tych dwóch krajach. Omówiono także między-narodowe zalecenia w sprawie oceny jakości spisów ludności, przygotowane przez ONZ i Eurostat. (oryginalny abstrakt)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Census

PL

Spis ludności

• Czasopismo: Studia Ekonomiczne / Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Rocznik: 2012
• Numer: nr 120 Survey sampling in economic and social research
• Strony: 70--76

Twórcy

autor

Dorota Raczkiewicz

• Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

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