Overview of Presentation

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

3. 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

4. Initiative • 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 • Dissemination has been the weakest point of population and housing censuses • Assist countries in their efforts to disseminate census results in a timely manner

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

6. Main features of CensusInfo • CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software

8. Main features of CensusInfo • CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software • Disseminates census results at any geographical level

11. Main features of CensusInfo • CensusInfo is user and administrator friendly software • Disseminates census results at any geographical level • Disseminates census results for multiple censuses

13. 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 indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN recommendations)

15. 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 indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN recommendations) • Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs

17. 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 indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN recommendations) • Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs • Supports to disseminate census data with multiple languages

19. 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 indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN recommendations) • Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs • Supports to disseminate census data with multiple languages • Generates user-defined tables, maps, graphs and reports

29. 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 indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN recommendations) • Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs • Supports to disseminate census data with multiple languages • Generates user-defined tables, maps, graphs and reports • Provides standard profile reports by geographic units

31. 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 indicators with accompanying metadata (based on UN recommendations) • Easy to customize to meet country-specific needs • Supports to disseminate census data with multiple 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

33. UNSD activities to assist countries adapting CensusInfo • Regional workshops • National Training on site • Basic Training • Advanced Training • User Application Training

34. unstats.un.org/unsd/census2010.htm unstats.un.org/unsd/census2010.htm

35. www.censusinfo.net

36. Thank You