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Experience from the Pilot Surveys of 2011 Census in Hungary. Lakatos Gábor - Kovács Marcell Hungarian Central Statistical Office Census and Population Statistics Department. 3rd meeting of the TCG for the Population Censuses in South East Europe Budapest, 28-29 October 2010. Legal background.
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Experience from the Pilot Surveys of 2011 Census in Hungary Lakatos Gábor - Kovács Marcell Hungarian Central Statistical OfficeCensus and Population Statistics Department 3rd meeting of the TCG for the Population Censuses in South East Europe Budapest, 28-29 October 2010
Legal background • 2nd of September 2008: Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on population and housing censuses • 1st of October 2008: Governmental decision in Hungry about census executed by full-scope enumeration • 23th of December 2009: Hungarian Census Act in force • Reference date: 1st of October 2011 • Combined method of electronic and paper-based self-enumeration with personal interview • Duration: 1st of October 2011 – 30th of November 2011 • Topics: a) population: sex, date of birth, citizenship, national and ethnic affiliation, marital status, present and one year prior place of usual residence, place of birth, fertility, household and family composition, educational attainment, economic activity, occupation, employer, tenure status, disability; b) dwellings: type, type of ownership, floor-space, year of construction, number of rooms, equipment; c) collective living quarters: type, number of beds, time of use
Legal background pt. 2 • 1st of June 2010: modification of new government adopted • same topics as in Census Act 2001 (religion, enumeration of holiday homes, detailed enumeration of collective living quarters; question about holiday home property, daily commuting, state of health etc.) • 2nd modification is under way in order • to have more accurate topics • to shorten data collection period
Brief history of Census Tests 2007-2010 Major events of preparation: • Quality check of Hungarian Population Register in 2007 • Census test in 2008 • Census test in 2009 • Cenus test in 2010 • Pilot Census in 2010
2007: Comparison of Microcensus 2005with the Population Register • To check the quality of the Population Register • Using data from 806 localities • 71 095 addresses = 2,2% of all addresses • Comparison of addresses and persons (persons identified by date of birth and sex) • Results: • Complete addresses matched: 76% • All persons on the address matched: 44% Population Register is not suitable for census purposes.
Pre-test ”focus group” surveys • 2008, 2009, 2010 • 50-100 persons questioned • Aim: to try questionnaires to be used in test, to get info about respondent behaviour • Results: • Finalization of questionaires for the tests • Refined wording of questions • Better sequenced questions • Flashy skips and helps
Census test 2008 • Aim • to check the validity of address data - in HCSO’s Address Register - in Hungarian Population Register • to test alternative data collection methods • to get info about preferencies on data collection methods • to test on-line data collection (for the first time in HCSO) • Execution • on 25 000 dwelling addresses in 6 localities • 2 sub-samples: • - 60 % interview (170-190 addresses per enumerator) • - 40% self-enumeration (by post, phone, net) • short questionnaire mainly with data registered in Hungarian Population Register
interview failed realised self-enumeration failed post net phone realised Census test 2008 - Results • HCSO’s Address Register =90% correct • 61% realisation: • interview districts: 86% • self-enumeration districts: 23% • post: 86%, net: 9%, phone: 5% • Enumeration method preferred for Census 2011 • Face to face interview: 62% • Self-enumeration technics: 35% • From registers without any contact with citizens: 3%
Census test 2009 • Aim • to test 2-step enumeration method • to test questions • to test methods that are low on costs and on respondent burden • Execution • on 30 000 addresses in 10 localities • 2 steps: • - self-enumeration: 10 - 25 January • - interview: 31 January – 28 February (170-190 addresses per enumerator) • 3 types of questionnaire (employment, education, household-family) • post-enumeration Survey on 1000 addresses
Census test 2009 - Results • self-enumeration: 38 % (33% in post, 5% on net) • time of completing a questionnaire: about 30 minutes in an average household • long postal return time • self-completed questionnaires in acceptable quality • problematic questions: employer
Census test 2010 • Aim • further testing of self-enumertion response quality in small sample compared to results of Labour Force Survey • Execution • February 2010 • connected to Labour Force Survey • 227 addresses in Budapesten • 365 addresses in 17 county seat towns • 243 addresses in 52 other towns • 515 addresses in 131 villages • Responses by self-enumeration, by post
Pilot Census 2010 • Aim • ”dress rehearsal” one year before reference date • Execution • in October 2010 • 22 000 addresses in the capital, a county seat town and six other localities • 100-120 addresses in each enumeration district • shorter data-collection period • 2 phases: delivery (personal contact) and interview • the two phases are going on at the same time • longer personal questionnaire (8 pages) • responses by interview, self-enumeration (net, paper without post)
