Use of sampling in population and housing censuses

Abstract

Sampling has a role in population and housing censuses both as an integral part of the planning, execution, analysis and evaluation of the census and through the use of the census as a sampling frame for subsequent sample inquiries. The census may be the only frame for subsequent sampling in many countries which have neither good maps, village lists, lists of living quarters, a register of population, nor a register of households. The two aspects of the use of sampling in population and housing censuses are discussed in Parts One and Two below.