Transition from traditional census to combined and registers based census

From Census to Grids: Comparing Gridded Population of the World with Swedish Census Records

The increased availability of digital spatial data combined with improved capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have allowed for the development of several global population distribution databases, such as the GPW, and LandScan. Making population distribution data available as a high-resolution raster database which facilitates rapid GIS analysis at the local level and for any zo...

Privacy Concerns and the Census Long Form: Some Evidence from Census 2000

Disclaimer: This report is released to inform interested parties of research and to encourage discussion. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the U.S. Census Bureau. This paper reports the results of research and analysis undertaken by Census Bureau staff. It has undergone a Census Bureau review 1 more limited in scope than that given to official Census Bure...

Census-based mortality study of fertiliser manufactures.

This study was designed to investigate whether exposure to nitrate-containing dust during fertiliser manufacture was associated with an excess of deaths from cancer in general or specifically from cancers of the digestive tract, liver, lung, and bladder. It was based on data extracted from census schedules by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, occupational characteristics recorded b...

Estimates of Census Underenumeration Based on Genealogies

Evidence from the Brazilian Population Census

This paper uses micro data from the 1980, 1991 and 2000 population censuses to investigate the role of changes in the industry mix in accounting for the differential trends in the incidence of child work (ages 10-15) across Brazilian states. We find that exogenous compositional changes account for around 20% of the observed fall in child employment in rural areas.