Webinar on Live Census Monitoring Dashboard to Mitigate Operational Pitfall and Improve Data Quality
Population and housing censuses provide fundamental statistics for monitoring development agendas as well as allowing disaggregation by small geographic areas and small population groups.It is one of the most complex and costly statistical operations demands. Therefore, there is a continuous effort for using alternative approaches and technologies to improve data quality, timeliness and dissemination of census results while considering increasing costs of carrying out the census.
Having a monitoring mechanism while CAPI censuses are being conducted is of paramount importance and could decide whether the census is successful or not. In this context, ECA developed a census monitoring dashboard based on the most widely adopted census and survey software, commonly known as CSPro of the US Census Bureau. To share best practice and experiences amongst member states and stakeholders, ECA, in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (UK), organized a webinar on the use of Census Monitoring Dashboards. The webinar which took place on 8 April 2021, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm EAT presented and discussed recent developments on the census dashboard monitoring tool.
The objectives of the webinar are to;
- Raise awareness of the opportunities and challenges of implementing a census dashboard to monitor enumeration progress and quality.
- Share experiences of countries that have already conducted a census or currently preparing to conduct their census.
- Introduce new developments in CSPro software and innovations in the digital census.
- Raise awareness of the support available from partners in digital census taking.
Below are the materials from the webinar. Any questions about ECA support on this or other topics for your census should be directed to Molla Hunegnaw Asmare at hunegnaw@un.org.