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In the largest ever effort of its kind, a multi-year UNECE project has kicked off to produce internationally agreed guidance and advice for conducting the next round of censuses, foreseen around 2030.  Censuses and the information they provide on populations, their distributions and
New Guidelines issued today by UNECE will support countries in maintaining high quality as they move towards using modern data sources in their censuses. Knowing the number of people in a population, their distribution across the country, and their basic characteristics such as age, sex and
A UNECE study launched today, ‘Keeping Count: conducting the 2020 round of population and housing censuses during the Covid-19 pandemic’ explores the impacts of the pandemic on all aspects of censuses, from data collection to public communication.   Drawing on insights from 52 member States