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United Nations Statistics Division

National CensusInfo Training, BUCREP, Yaoundé, Cameroun, 2-6 October 2011



Overview of Presentation What is CensusInfo Objectives Main features of the software UNSD activities to assist CensusInfo CensusInfo website



What is CensusInfo

Developed by UNSD in partnership with UNICEF and UNFPA to disseminate census results

Officially launched in February 2009 at the 40th session of the Statistical Commission

CensusInfo is a software tool to disseminate census data on the web and CD-ROM



Census Data Dissemination as one of three main goals of the “2010 World Programme on Population and Housing Census” as approved by UN Statistics Commission 36th session

Initiative

Assist countries in their efforts to disseminate census results in a timely manner

Dissemination has been the weakest point of population and housing censuses



Develop a software solution to facilitate the dissemination of census results fulfilling following minimum criteria:

Objectives

Easy to implement and easy to use Free to use Dissemination of census data at any geographical level Able to generate census-specific outputs Customization for country-specific requirements Dissemination on the web and CD-ROM



Main features of CensusInfo

CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software




CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software Disseminates census results at any geographical level




CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software Disseminates census results at any geographical level Disseminates census results for multiple censuses




CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software Disseminates census results at any geographical level Disseminates census results for multiple censuses Provides a suggested list of census topics, data and

indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN recommendations)






Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs






Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs Supports to disseminate census data with multiple

languages







languages Generates user-defined tables, maps, graphs and reports







languages Generates user-defined tables, maps, graphs and reports Provides standard profile reports by geographic units



Main features of CensusInfo CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software Disseminates census results at any geographical level Disseminates census results for multiple censuses Provides a suggested list of census topics, data and



languages Generates user-defined tables, maps, graphs and reports Provides standard profile reports by geographic units Allows importing data from other software applications

such as CSPro, Redatam, SAS and SPSS



UNSD activities to assist countries adapting CensusInfo Regional workshops

National Training on site Basic Training Advanced Training User Application Training



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www.censusinfo.netwww.censusinfo.net



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