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Standardizing national census data

Description

Standardizing national census data involves implementing uniform definitions, classifications, and methodologies across countries to ensure data comparability and reliability. This strategy addresses inconsistencies that hinder global demographic analysis and policy-making. By harmonizing data collection and reporting standards, it enables accurate cross-national assessments, supports international development planning, and facilitates effective resource allocation. Standardization remedies data fragmentation, reduces errors, and enhances the utility of census information for governments, researchers, and international organizations.This information has been generated by artificial intelligence.

Broader

Providing sufficient comparative social data
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Providing census data
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Improving social and demographic statistics
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Applying standards to ensure data compatibility
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Narrower

Monitoring migration
Presentable
Establishing databases on populations exposed to hazardous waste
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Facilitates

Developing scenarios for population growth
Presentable
Increasing awareness of population control
Unpresentable

Problem

Inadequate social and demographic statistics
Excellent

Value

Underpopulation
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Overpopulation
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Depopulation
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Reference

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Recommendations for the 1990 Censuses of Population and Housing in the UN / ECE Region
United Nations: Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses: Revision 1

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-beingSustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced Inequality

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
  • Information » Data, codes
  • Research, standards » Standards
  • Sociology » Demography
  • Sociology » Population
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
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    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J0261
    DOCID
    12002610
    D7NID
    200860
    Editing link
    Official link
    https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/standardizing-national-census-data
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024