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UN EXPERT GROUP MEETING ON 2010 WORLD PROGRAMME ON POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUSES New York – 22-26 August 2005 Susan Linacre Australian Bureau of Statistics
Working Group 1 Focus: Topics for inclusion, standards, definitions and classifications, and guidance in relation to enumeration of specific topics
Potential New Topics: • Information and Communication Technology • Environment Others • Agriculture (Technical Subgroup 2-1) • Health, mortality, leisure and household budget
Geographical and migration related: • Defining total population: more explicit standards, particularly for usual residence • Describing population: guidance on treatment of foreigner, year of arrival, multiple citizenship, sensitive populations • Urban/rural
Family: • Multiple household families • Family nucleus: eg grandparent/grandchild
Education: • School attendance v enrolment • Literacy • Vocational training
Economically active population: • Employment/Unemployment: comparability with LFS data • Informal sector • Unpaid volunteer work
Disability: • Use of WHO ICF framework • Selection of elements of the framework based on purpose • Identification of essential domains and additional domains • Issue of number of questions required
Housing: • Review of basic topics eg floor space • Rental and owner occupant housing costs