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IDENTIFICATION AND CONSULTATION WITH DATA USERS – TANZANIA EXPERIENCE Presentated by Irenius Ruyobya National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania September, 2010

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Page 1: IDENTIFICATION AND CONSULTATION WITH DATA USERS – TANZANIA EXPERIENCE Presentated by Irenius Ruyobya National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania September,

IDENTIFICATION AND CONSULTATION WITH DATA USERS

– TANZANIA EXPERIENCE

Presentated by Irenius Ruyobya

National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania

September, 2010

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Outline of the Presentation

• Introduction•  History of the Census in Tanzania• Population of Tanzania• Mandate to Conduct the Census• Identification and Consultation – Experiences from the Last Census – Consultative Process

• Challenges

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Introduction

• A census is an expensive statistical operation, consisting of a complex series of interrelated steps, which a country undertakes;

• The ultimate goal of the census operation is to provide the government and other stakeholders with essential statistics on the socio-economic conditions of a population;

• Identification and consultation with data users before the data collection exercise is crucial if that goal is to be achieved.

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 History of the Census in Tanzania

• The population censuses in Tanzania dates back to 1910;

• However, the first scientific census took place in 1958; 

• Four censuses have been conducted since independence in 1961, (1967, 1978, 1988 and 2002);

•  The fifth post independence census is scheduled for 2012.

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Population of Tanzania – Census counts and Projected Population

Tanzania: Census counts and Projections: 2000-2025

Year Population1967 12,313,4691978 17,512,6101988 23,095,8852002 34,443,6032003 34,859,5822004 35,944,0152005 37,083,3462006 38,250,9272009 41,915,8802010 43,187,8232012 45,798,4752015 49,861,7682020 57,102,8962025 65,337,918

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  Mandate to Conduct the Census

• Population and Housing Censuses in Tanzania are carried out in accordance with the Statistics Act No. 1, 2002; The Act, inter alia, mandates the NBS to conduct Population and Housing Census within the United Republic of Tanzania. 

• However, census is national issue and therefore involvement of Government leadership and machinery is essential. 

•  To ensure, the involvement of national leadership, there is a Central Census Committee chaired by the Prime Minister that provides general guidelines and mobilize the required resources. 

• Similar committees are also available at lower administrative levels i.e the regions and distrits.

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Identification and Consultation with Data Users in the last Census

Identification of users was based on intended use of populationcensus information. Based on that criterion, users were identified 

from:• Government Ministries and Departments;• Local authorities;• International Organizations;• Research institutions;• Business community;• Media;• Religious organizations; and• Community based organizations

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  Consultative Process

• The user consultation process in terms of census information was a major factor in the development of topics to be investigated and the dissemination programme after census information have been collected; 

• However, consultative meetings were held at the national level only (shortcoming).

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  Consultative Process

Major objective of those meetings were:• To give an overview to users on the planned census;• To present a list of topics to be investigated in the

census;• To inform our major users on improvement and initiatives for the forthcoming census, including key changes to the questionnaires, classification and other processes; and

• To discuss the dissemination strategies after release of census information.

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  Consultative Process

Five major steps were observed :• Step 1: Identification of the topics (draft) to be investigated based on: o History of the country, o Priorities prevailing at that moment,o Recommendations from international bodieso Costs; ando relevance of the topics to be investigated.

• Step 2: Topics sent to potential users for comments;• Step 3: Producer – Users meetings.• Step 4: Draft questionnaire were pretested and piloted. • Step 5: “Final version” of the questionnaire (which included) observations of the pilot test was again presented to major data users for final comments

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  Challenges

A number of challenges were observed in these meetings: 

• Limited knowledge by users on usefulness, advantages, disadvantages and limitations of a census;

• Some users requested the inclusion of questions that can only be administered in a specialized survey; 

• Other demands were also on issues that were against the Government policy e.g questions on religion and tribes.

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  Challenges (Cont’d)

• Some of these users were of the opinion that “cheap” alternative method could be used to generate the required information rather than a census that is expensive. 

• Demand that for census data to be useful then results must be produced within a very short time after enumeration, e.g. within two months.