2007 POPULATION and HOUSING CENSUS OF ETHIOPIA ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT Central Statistical Authority April 2012 Addis Ababa TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ...........................................................................................................................i ACRONYMS .........................................................................................................................v PREFACE ............................................................................................................................ vi CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND............................................................................................................1 1.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................1 1.2 Use of the Population and Housing Census........................................................................2 1.3 Essential Features of the Population and Housing Census.................................................3 1.4 Brief History of Population and Housing Census Taking in Ethiopia ..................................3 1.5 Legal Authority for Conducting the Census ........................................................................5 1.6 The National Population Census Commission ....................................................................5 1.7 Population Census Secretariat and Committees ..............................................................12 1.8 The Census Calendar.........................................................................................................13 1.9 Funding of the Census ......................................................................................................14 CHAPTER 2: CENSUS PREPARATORY ACTVITIES .............................................16 2.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................16 2.2 Census Technical Committee............................................................................................16 2.3 Census Instruments ..........................................................................................................16 2.4 Tabulation Plan .................................................................................................................21 2.5 Census Concepts and Definitions .....................................................................................22 2.6 Historical Calendar............................................................................................................22 2 .7 Challenges and lessons learnt...........................................................................................23 CHAPTER 3: CARTOGRAPHY AND CENSUS MAPPING .....................................24 3.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................24 3.2 Objective and Purpose of the Census Mapping................................................................24 3.3 Application of New Technology in the 2007 Census Mapping .........................................25 3.4 Preparatory Activities for the Census Mapping................................................................27 3.5 The Census Mapping Field Team ......................................................................................29 3.6 Demarcation and Mapping of Enumeration and Supervisory Areas................................30 3.7 Mapping in the Somali Region..........................................................................................34 3.8 Summary of the EAs and SAs Mapping Exercise...............................................................36 3.9 Challenges and Lessons Learnt .........................................................................................36 CHAPTER 4: LOGISTICS AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES .............................39 4.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................39 4.2 Major Tasks Accomplished ...............................................................................................39 4.3 Transport ..........................................................................................................................43 4.4 Storage Facilities and Security Arrangements ..................................................................43 4.5 Challenges and Lessons Learnt .........................................................................................44 CHAPTER 5: PILOT CENSUS.....................................................................................45 5.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................45 5.2 Preparatory Activities .......................................................................................................45 5.3 Packing and Distribution of Pilot Census Materials..........................................................47 5.4 Publicity and Public Education for the Pilot Census .........................................................48 5.5 Challenges and Lessons Learnt .........................................................................................49 CHAPTER 6: CENSUS PUBLICITY AND PUBLIC EDUCATION..........................51 6.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................51 6.2 Census Publicity and Education Committees ...................................................................51 6.3 The Census Publicity and Education Strategy...................................................................52 6.4 Census Logo ......................................................................................................................52 6.5 Intensity of Census Publicity and the Count Down to the Census Night..........................53 6.6 Multi‐media Campaign .....................................................................................................53 6.7 Other Census Education and Publicity Activities and Materials.......................................55 6.8 Challenges and Lessons Learnt .........................................................................................56 CHAPTER 7: MAIN CENSUS ENUMERATION .......................................................57 7.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................57 7.2 Timing and duration of the 2007 Census Enumeration....................................................57 7.3 Assembling and Dispatching of the 2007 Census Documents..........................................58 7.4 Recruitment and Training of Field Staff............................................................................59 7.5 Listing of Household and Housing Units...........................................................................61 7.6 Census Night .....................................................................................................................61 7.7 Main Census Enumeration................................................................................................62 7.8 Control of Fieldwork .........................................................................................................64 ii 7.9 Challenges and Lessons Learnt .........................................................................................65 CHAPTER 8: DATA PROCESSING............................................................................66 8.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................66 8.2 Data processing Plan.........................................................................................................66 8.3 Receipt of Completed Census Materials at CSA Head Office ...........................................67 8.4 Census Materials Storage Management...........................................................................68 8.5 Data capturing ..................................................................................................................69 8.6 Data Editing.......................................................................................................................70 8.7 Compilation of Basic Population Data ..............................................................................75 8.8 Evaluation of the 2007 Census Data of the Amhara Region.............................................76 8.9 Challenges and Lessons Learnt .........................................................................................76 CHAPTER 9: ANALYSIS, DISSEMINATION AND ARCHIVING ..........................78 9.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................78 9.2 Analysis of the 2007 Census .............................................................................................78 9.3 Dissemination of the 2007 Census results........................................................................81 9.4 Archiving ...........................................................................................................................83 9.5 Challenges and Lessons Learnt .........................................................................................84 CHAPTER