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Measuring the economically active in population censuses : a handbook.

"The Handbook provides guidance on the measurement of economic characteristics in population censuses, based on relevant experiences of countries, with a particular focus on the questions used and the requirements for processing of responses. The Handbook is intended to provide census planners...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, International Labour Office. Department of Statistics
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : United Nations : International Labour Office, 2010.
Colección:Studies in methods. no. 102.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: General issues. Focus and content--rationale and structure ; Planning and design of population censuses for the collection of data on economic characteristics.
  • Part 2: Measurement of economic characteristics in a population census. Measurement frameworks ; Currently economically active population (labour force) ; Usual economic activity status.
  • Part 3: Measurement of characteristics of jobs, establishments and persons. Descriptive characteristics for the main job ; Descriptive characteristics of the establishment ; Working time and income.
  • Part 4: Data processing, tabulation, analysis and dissemination. Data processing, tabulation, analysis and dissemination.
  • Part 5: Coding of occupation and industry. Preparations for coding occupation and industry ; The development and use of coding indices.
  • Part 6: Using population censuses to improve labour force and related statistics. Types of data collection on the labour force and other economic characteristics ; Labour force survey structure and arrangements ; Sampling and related uses of census information ; The population census as a frame for household-based censuses and surveys of agricultural and small-scale economic units ; Use of census data in the production of survey estimates ; The census as a basis for evaluating survey data ; Combined uses of census and survey data: current estimates for small domains, including local level estimates.