A SAS ® Business Intelligence – A Technology for Register - based Censuses

Any member of the United Nations has to carry out an entire national census between the years 2005 and 2014. While the demographic characteristics of the population in the still very widespread traditional census are determined by directly contacting citizens, the new kind of register-based census represents a radical shift in the way censuses are conducted, involving an entirely new set of tasks and problems. The basic principle of the new census process consists of the automated and anonymous matching of national registers to implement the comprehensive reporting necessary for each census. The current article describes an approach to the realization of the new census with the aid of SAS® BI technology, which is based on the OLAP principle and thus covers various topics such as data integration, data quality, statistical matching, and, of course, classical data-driven reporting in this very innovative and dynamic environment.