Population censuses have been conducted for thousands of years and they are one of the bases of any official statistics …. By giving a detailed overview of the structure of a country’s population at a specific point in time, they provide one of … the most important parameters for political action. In addition, in modern statistical systems, population censuses are …

This paper investigates whether inferences drawn about a population are sensitive to the manner by which those data are … from a locally administered census that had been carefully revised. The community map tends to include households that do … not, in fact, reside in the enumerated locality. By contrast, the revised official census is slightly more likely to …

The article discusses the quality of population census data - information obtained in the oldest, largest and most … famous statistical surveys. In particular, the quality assessment of census data refers to the Polish experience. The article … tradition, as well as a well-developed research methodology, censuses do not provide ‘perfect’ results. First of all, the census …