The recommendations recently issued by the Conference of European Statisticians (CES) for the next round of population and housing censuses underline for the first time that some countries might find it in their interest to enumerate same-sex couples. Many pitfalls can be expected when such a sensitive topic is newly included in a census. The experience of the few western countries that have al...

Every 10 years since 1801, the UK has set aside one day for the census, whereby information is obtained on every member of the population. It is the most complete source of information about the population that we have with details of family composition, health, employment and other socio-economic characteristics. The information provided allows central and local Government, health authorities ...

Analysis of 2000 census data revealed that blacks in Metropolitan Detroit are the most racially segregated population group in the United States. Blacks in Metropolitan Detroit reside overwhelmingly in central city housing while whites reside overwhelmingly in suburban housing. The objective of this paper is to determine whether the low representation of blacks in suburban housing and the lower...

Like income inequality, housing inequality in urban China is strongly affected by state policies that give preferential treatment to insiders. In this case, the key policies are related to their residence status, which involves not only their migration history but also their legal position. Using data from the Chinese census of 2000 for eight large cities, this study shows how residence status ...

Monterrey Metropolitan Zone (Mexico) is characterised by industrial activity and its proximity to the border with US. In 2010, 13 municipalities provided infrastructure services that allow people live, work or rest, but also a specific function (housing, work, leisure) due prevalence of one these, impacting daily life population gender. This article explores relationship between travel distance...

In this paper we aim at detecting poverty hotspots and preparing the corresponding maps. Poverty and inequality maps — spatial descriptions of the distribution of poverty — are most useful to policymakers and researchers when they are finely disaggregated, i.e. when they represent small geographic units, such as cities, municipalities, regions or other administrative partitions of a country. Mo...

This article aims to analyse current geodemographic changes in Poland, based on the data of 2021 National Population and Housing Census. Methods, traditional for socioeconomic geography, such as zoning, were employed. Poland’s population decreased during inter-­census period (2011—2021), with urban declining faster than its rural counterpart. The large voivodeships aligned along Vistula ‘axis’ ...

This paper presents selected results from the Administrative Records Experiment in 2000 (AREX 2000). AREX 2000 used administrative records to enumerate the population in two test sites and compared the results to Census 2000. The test sites included two Maryland and three Colorado counties that offered distinct challenges to the enumeration process. The Outcomes Evaluation assessed two enumerat...