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