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Population and Housing Census 2010

Timor-Leste, 2010
Reference ID
TLS_2010_PHC_v01_M
Producer(s)
Direcção Nacional de Estatística
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Apr 07, 2014
Last modified
Mar 29, 2019
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Questionnaires
  • Access policy
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
TLS_2010_PHC_v01_M
Title
Population and Housing Census 2010
Country
Name Country code
Timor-Leste TLS
Study type
Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]
Series Information
A census is the complete count of a country's population conducted with the objective of providing information on the size, distribution, composition and other demographic, social and economic characteristics of a nation. Timor-Leste has conducted two censuses in 2004 and 2010 since its independence.
Abstract
The Government of Timor-Leste with support from United Nations Population and Fund (UNFPA) undertook the second Population and Housing Census in July 2010. The objective of 2010 Timor-Leste Population and Housing Census is to collect demographic and socio-economic data required for decision making.

The census collected data on:
- Size, composition and spatial distribution of the population
- Levels of education attained by the population
- Size and deployment of the labour force
- Prevalence of disability and its spread
- Levels of fertility, mortality and migration
- Rate and pattern of urbanization
- Housing conditions and availability of social amenities
- Participation in agricultural production.
Kind of Data
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Unit of Analysis
- Individual,
- Households.

Scope

Notes
The scope of the Timor-Leste Population and Housing Census 2004 includes:
- Population (age & sex) and households (National, district, urban/rural, sub-district, suco and aldeia; Sex ratio, density, average household size)
- Religion
- Citizenship
- Mother tongue
- Marital status
- Movement of people
- Education
- Labor force
- Disability
- Birth registration of children 0-5 years
- Place delivery and assistance during delivery of last live birth
- Housing conditions (ownership, materials of - wall, roof and floor)
- Household amenities (drinking water, energy for cooking & lighting, sanitation, selected household goods -radio, phone, motorcycle, etc)
- Households involved in Crop production and Livestock rearing
- Production of crops (rice, maize, cassava, vegetables, fruits, coffee, coconut)
- Number of livestock (chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, cattle/cow, buffalo)

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
Direcção Nacional de Estatística
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation
United Nations Population Fund UNFPA

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
No sampling - whole universe covered
Weighting
Not specified

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start
2010-07-11
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation
Direcção Nacional de Estatística NSD

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
The census questionnaire designed for households was available in four languages: Tetun, Portuguese, English and Indonesian. Copies of the English, Portuguese and Tetum questionnaires are included in this Website. There were special questionnaires for institutions such as prisons, orphanages, convents and boarding schools, and also one questionnaire for hotels.

Access policy

Contacts
Affiliation Email URL
Direcção Nacional de Estatística dne@mof.gov.tl Link
Confidentiality
Not specified
Citation requirements
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download

Example:

Direcção Nacional de Estatística. Timor-Leste Population and Housing Census 2010. Ref. TLS_2010_PHC_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from www.measuredhs.com on [date]
Access authority
Affiliation Email URL
Direcção Nacional de Estatística dne@mof.gov.tl Link

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_TLS_2010_PHC_v01_M_WB
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Development Data Group DECDG The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
Date of Metadata Production
2014-02-24
DDI Document version
Version 01 (February 2014)
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