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Census 2011 round (cens_11r)

National Reference Metadata in Euro SDMX Metadata Structure (ESMS)

Compiling agency: INE (National Statistics Institute)-Spain

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Our main data set is the enumeration survey. 

 

Using information from the survey we were able to disseminate information from 

-People (Demographic topic, Economic topics, Education topics, Migration...)

-Dwellings

-Households

-Family nucleus

17 March 2014

People

Dwellings

Households

Family nucleus

People living in Spain at Census date (1st November 2011)

Spain

1 November 2011

People or Total population

Information obtained by paper was scanned and codified. An OCR-system was used to check the

information and people working in a call-center ckecked the incoherences of the questionnarie.

 

Information from the survey was linked with information from the register using these information:

-Name and Surname

-Date of Birth

-Citizenship

-Place of Birth

-Place of Residence

Both deterministic and probabilistic methods were used in order to maximize the linkage porcentage

between the two sources.

 

For all the topics:

-Fist of all we edited the information and tried to detect all the wrong values.

-Secondly, both the wrong and missing values were imputed, most of the times using probabilistic

techniques.

 

Generation of household and families information was possible using information from the questionnarie:

-Name and surname

-Age

-Question number 5 (Legal marital status) and

-Question number 6 (Relation between household members)

See chapter 8.1

Timeliness depends on each dissemination we carried out:

 

(December 2012). Timeliness=13 months

(April 2013). Timeliness=17 months

(May 2013). Timeliness=18 months

(December 2013). Timeliness=25 months

In general, all the information is comparable among different geographic areas

(our survey design ensured that all the LAU2 areas were represented)

 

Apart from that, some detailed information may not be comparable becasue

its sampling error is too high.