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Census of Population,
Housing,Buildings,Establis
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Huda Ebrahim Al Shrooqi
Central Informatics Organization
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Census
2010
Why
2010

UN Recommendations

GCC Decision of the

Supreme Council

Decision of the Supreme Council

At its twenty-second - Muscat 2001

Census standardized for the GCC in 2010

Decision of the Supreme Council At its twenty-second Muscat 2010
Supreme Council of the Gulf, has considered the recommendations of the
Ministerial Council at its eighty-first preparatory round approving the
recommendation of the Committee for Planning and Development at its tenth
meeting on the standardization of time periods for general censuses in the
countries of the Council, and to achieve the integration of statistical activities of the
GCC countries and the cost savings, and has decided that:
Each of the Member States should conduct census in 2010, and standardize
periods of general censuses to be held in every ten years.

Census
2010

From
Administrative
Records

Census date in Bahrain.

The first Gulf state & The fourth Arab state
to have census
1941 1950 1959

1965

1971 1981 1991 2001 2010

...

Make use of the database of the Central

Population Registry and of various
government agencies to extract the
required data for the general census.
Estimates for the indicators which are not
available in the database are obtained
through a sample survey .

Population
Housing
Building
Establishment
Agriculture

The availability of the infrastructure of database

Central Population Register was established in 1984Based on 1981

census data.

The establishment of the Governmental network in 1994.

Linking more than 300 government websites with government

network.

Placement of security systems and ensuring confidentiality in the

government network .

Decision of the Council of Ministers to Standardize the

instruments, concepts, definitions and classifications in 2009.
Determine the ownership of the data in different sectors.

Readiness of the Systems in the government sectors .

Develop a mechanism to update the population Register data as part

of the working procedures in government sectors.

Census Data Sources- Ministries

Commercial
Registration

Nation
ality,
Passp
ort &
Reside
ncy

M/O
Justic
e

Social
Insurance &
Pension

Electri
city &
Water
Author
ity

Municipalities

Central
Population
Register
M/O Social
Development

M/O industry
& Commerce

M/O
Healt
h

Census

Housing
and
buildings

Labour
LMR
Market

A
Autho
rity

Geogra
phic
Informa
tion

Syste
m
Agricult
ure

Tabulation

Central Informatics
organisation (CIO)

Basic data of the population

(Age,Sex, Name, Address, Religionetc)

Ministry of Justice

Marital Status

Ministry of Health
Ministry of Social
Development
Nationality, Passports and
Residence
Social Insurance Organization
Labour Market Regulatory
Authority
Ministry of industry &
Commerce

Ministry of Education
Ministry of Municipalities and
Ministry of Electricity

Vital Statistics
Disabilities
Nationality
Duration of residence

Manpower
Establishments

Economic Activity of establishments

Enrollment
Education

Level
Educational Attainment
The type of occupancy and ownership
of buildings , housing and
Establishments

Establishments

Census
Ministry
of
industry
&
Commerc
e
Commercial
records

Central
Informatic
s
organisati
on (CIO)

Noncommercial
records

Commercial
records and Noncommercial

Establishmen
ts frame

Tables

Workers

Compared to the databases with the census requirements of the

United Nations, General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council
and the League of Arab States.

Determine the variables to be completed in the census database.

Finalise definitions and classifications between sources.

Update the database of census data from the databases of

government sectors on a regular basis.

Revise and create the Central Population Registry database, after

obtaining the updated information from other Ministries.

Retrieve the data from the revised Central Population Registry database .

Completion of the census data from other government sectors.

sample survey in households for variables that needs to be supplemented

(by telephone communications and field visits)

Extraction and validation of results.

Putting the census in public arena.

The Mechanism

Create
Createaapopulation
population
record
record database
database

action to implement the census

Programs/ collaboration with

other data agencies.

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run

Readiness of the hardware

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Survey Management
Data Management & reports

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Census databases
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Census
2010

Validating the
Validating the
census data and
census data and
preparation of
preparation of

sample

Revise and create the

Population Registry database

Beginning
Analyze the data

census team
Operations

Central Population
Registry

Operations
Retrieve the
data

Central
Population
team

Copy of the data

Validated
data
Vital records

General
Errors

Yes

Updated population
registry data
automatically

No

Can be
corrected
in the office

No

Yes

Updated population
registry data manually

Records
team

Team field
Verification
of the data
Census team

Objective
Collect information required for the census, in respect of the
data which are not available in administrative records.
Evaluation of data on household size, current employment
status & highest educational level achieved for their accuracy.
Steps
About 15000 families has been selected from the Central
Population Registry database as a framework for a sample
survey that covered Bahraini, non-Bahraini and collective
households.
Each governorate was a stratum. Samples were proportionally
allocated to each substratum of Bahraini, non-Bahraini and
collective households.
Samples were selected in a systematic manner after
arranging the households as per their size.

15,000
Household 3(Technical Support,

Chief of Operations

Quality 2

Systems development
Customer Services)

Director of the call

Centre

2supervisor

Hotline 4
Coordinator
field work

Registered field 2

of the call
Centre

supervisors field
35

staff for call

center

28

Call center

280 Researchers
140 teams
4 teams for each
supervisor

Field works

1.

Indicate that the household composition surveyed is different from the

data base on the day of enumeration. Some cases were found to be
like:

Addition of servants who were not issued with a personal number.

Some individuals move to another address housing, without informing &
changing the address with the CPR.

2. Show that the number of households in house as per the survey is

different from the number of households in actual census .
3. Collective households have been changed to private households.
4. Show that some of the characteristics of education and the workforce for
some individuals in survey is different from what the actual census is
recorded such as employees or temporary staff who have not been
modified their records for the time of enumeration.

Thank you for your kind atte

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