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Population and housing censuses in pandemic contexts: regional panorama and challenges
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This is a side-event of the Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, organized by CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC and the National Statistical Institute of Chile.
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BACKGROUND
The crisis caused by the pandemic has highlighted the importance of population and housing censuses as a fundamental tool for decision-making regarding prevention, mitigation and targeting of resources and to provide valuable information in the identification and characterization of vulnerable populations and its distribution
The COVID-19 pandemic coincided with the year zero recommended for conducting the censuses, impacting numerous countries in the region that had planned to conduct its census between 2020 and 2022 which in most cases had to be postponed as they were affected not only by the challenges and uncertainties inherent to the health emergency, but also due to budget reductions, demanding reschedule, acceleration of technological innovations, drop in citizen participation due to physical distancing and fear, among other factors. Such is the case that some countries in the region still don’t have guaranteed resources or defined dates for conducting their censuses, or have had to accelerate its implementation, without the proper conditions to guarantee obtaining quality information.
OBJECTIVES
The objective of this side event is to attain, from the perspective of the directors and managers of the National Statistical Institutes, the main challenges that the Latin American and the Caribbean region has been facing in the planning and deploying of their population and housing censuses in the context of a pandemic COVID-19 and learn about the strategies applied to ensure a timely implementation and a quality result.
Programme of work
Population and housing census – regional overview
» Moderator: Sandra Quijada, Director of the National Statistical Institute of Chile
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Presentation(s)
Panorama de los censos de población y vivienda en América Latina / Overview of population and housing censuses in Latin America
Panorama de los censos de población y viviendas en los países del Caribe / Overview of population and housing censuses in the Caribbean countries
▪ CENSO DE POBLACIÓN Y VIVIENDA DE: / POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS OF:
- COSTA RICA
- PARAGUAY
- BELICE / BELIZE
» Intervención de los países y cierre / Country intervention and closing session
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Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC
This eleventh meeting of the SCA-ECLAC, as well as the side-events will be held virtually.
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Organizing institution
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- https://www.cepal.org
- 56 222100000
