CARICOM -ADVANCED DATA EDITING 2010 ROUND OF CENUS

Paramaribo, Suriname

21- 25 November 2011

Advance Census Editing Workshop

Grenada - Beryl ann Clarkson (Head of Party)

Grenada - Imi Chitterman

Grenada - Tiemonne Charles

Elected Chariman - Beryl Ann Clarkson

Caricom Consultant - Micheal Levin (40 Years working with Census Cleaning Activities), Edwin St. Catherine

Manual Edits Code and Verify

Scanning:

Inputs for the workshop:

- Data from Census activities from various countires.

- Windows Computing platform (Windows XP or later)

- CS Pro 4.0 or higher (http://www.census.gov/population/international/software/cspro/)

- Editing Rules ( Manuals of Edits, UNSD Population and Housing Editing Manual Revision 1.. download here)

Human Resource -

Census and Survey Subject matter personnel.

Personnel with programming capacity - structral progamming.

Outcome:

1. Develop subroutings, SQL structures that allowed the transformation of data from MS SQL servers to ASCII files.

2. Code the rules to check household data, eg. Check that a stated type of house - has the correct definition of WALLS and ROOFING types.

3. Code rules for person - eg. If religion is missing <> for member of households, then uses the religion of the head of the household.

Other actitivies:

Venue:

Wyndham Hotel, Suriname and Kings Casino