Census Planning And Budgeting

1. Census planning and budgeting Paolo Valente (UNECE) UNECE Training Workshop on Census Questionnaire Design for SPECA member countries (Dushanbe, 12-16 March 2007)

14. 2. Establishing a work plan 2.3 Developing the work plan See Annex II of “ Handbook on Census Management for Population and Housing Censuses ” on UNSD website ( http://unstats.un.org/unsd/pubs/ ): “ Example of a model census project timetable” Example of detailed work plan (by Australia), with list of activities and relative timetable:

15. 2. Establishing a work plan 2.3 Developing the work plan Extract from Annex II “Example of a model census project timetable”:

32. 4. Preparation of the budget 4.2 General issues on the census budget  In the 2000 census round, ECE countries spent on average only 5% of their census budget for publication, dissemination and documentation  23 countries (2/3 of reporting countries) spent less than 3%! Source: UNECE Survey, 2004  Detailed information on census costs in the 2000 census round is available in the UNECE Publication on the 2000 Round of Censuses (Part I, Ch. 4)