PROJECT TITLE: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS, ALBANIA 2011

Finance Instrument: IPA National 2009, Direct Grant

Project Status: Completed

Implementation period: 05.01.2010 – 04.07.2014

Funded by: European Union

Contribution amount: 8,170,933 Eur

Type of assistance: Technical Assistance

Beneficiary: INSTAT

Implementing Agency: ICON Institute, INSTAT, Sinteza CO

Statistical Domains: Social Statistics, Demography

Project objectives:

The main objective is to contribute to the strengthening of the Albanian statistical system with the implementation of a Population and Housing Census in 2011 in line with European standards and other international recommendations. Specific objectives of the project:

  • Preparing the Population and Housing Census 2011 in line with European standards and other international recommendations
  • Carrying out the general enumeration
  • Increasing its capacity in the processing, analysis and dissemination of the Census data

Project results:

  • Project Management documentation developed and updated
  • Census activities coordinated and monitored successfully
  • GIS system finalised and statistical database updated which will serve as the base for future census and surveys
  • Census questionnaires finalised
  • Training of 2250 people, including INSTAT staff, supervisors and controllers
  • PES (Post Enumeration Survey) sample and questionnaire drafted
  • Operations in the field carried out efficiently
  • Successfully completed the enumeration process with accurate and reliable data on the resident Albanian population, both present and absent on Census day, and on its demographic and socio-economic characteristics as well as on the quality of its housing
  • Census data processed
  • Metadata system developed in line with EU recommendations
  • Census data analysed and disseminated in a timely way to meet the requirement of users