Hot topics about Population Census: how to convince people to respond to the interview?

Although the researchers and census users normally do not have much information about the census operations, one of the most challenger points to statistical institutes that carry out the census is how to convince people to respond the interviews. Nowadays, with the advance of demographic transition, this problem is getting more serious, when there is a decrease of the number of people that stay at home to receive the interviewers, as the women are more involved at the job market, couples have few children and there is a high percentage of people living alone.

A recent polemic from Canada revive this issue. Reinstating the 2016 mandatory long form census in Canada may be problematic, as the census has become politicized and participating in the census becoming a statement of one’s political affiliation and not a civic obligation more…

From some national institutes:

• the brazilian law: the 5.534/68.
• mandatory vs. voluntary methods: the US Census Bureau justification.
• el  Decreto 67/2010 de Argentina

El Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) de Chile anunció que luego de medición de 2017 realizará censos cada cinco años. Siguiendo recomendación de la Cepal, se realizará una medición tradicional cada diez años y una abreviada cada cinco.

La directora del INE Ximena Clark explicó que la instalación de un Censo abreviado cada cinco años responde a indicaciones internacionales que apuntan al dinamismo de la población. Sigue leyendo →