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Population and Housing Census 2001

St. Lucia, 2001
Reference ID
LCA_2001_PHC_v01_M
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Office
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 29, 2011
Last modified
Mar 29, 2019
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
  • access_policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    LCA_2001_PHC_v01_M
    Title
    Population and Housing Census 2001
    Country
    Name Country code
    St. Lucia LCA
    Study type
    Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]
    Series Information
    This is the 15th Population Census conducted in St.Lucia, Previous censuses were held in 1843, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921, 1946, 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1991.
    Abstract
    The reason for conducting a population and housing census is to collect, compile, evaluate, analyse and publish demographic, social and economic data at a specific time (May 2001) pertaining to all persons in the country.
    Kind of Data
    Census/enumeration data [cen]
    Unit of Analysis
    The basic units of analysis are individuals, households and enumeration districts.

    Version

    Version Description
    Version 2.0. This version of the dataset is based on the data prepared in 2006 of the 2001 census.
    Version 2.0 is further edited (fixing duplicated IDs) and documented (ref.SLC_CSO_PHC2001_v2.0).
    Version Date
    2008-06-26
    Version Notes
    This data set contains duplicate ID,some of which has been manually edited

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the Population and Housing Census includes:

    1. Migration
    2. Housing
    3. Population Characteristics
    4. Disability
    5. Health
    6. Birthplace and residence
    7. Education and Training
    8. Marital and Union Status
    9. Fertility
    10. Economic Activity
    11. Crime
    12. Place where Census night was spent
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    income, property and investment/saving [1.5] CESSDA
    employment [3.1] CESSDA
    unemployment [3.5] CESSDA
    crime [5.1] CESSDA
    basic skills education [6.1] CESSDA
    compulsory and pre-school education [6.2] CESSDA
    post-compulsory education [6.5] CESSDA
    vocational education [6.7] CESSDA
    information society [7.2] CESSDA
    general health [8.4] CESSDA
    specific diseases and medical conditions [8.9] CESSDA
    housing [10.1] CESSDA
    family life and marriage [12.5] CESSDA
    censuses [14.1] CESSDA
    fertility [14.2] CESSDA
    migration [14.3] CESSDA

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage
    National coverage
    Universe
    The survey covered :
    Persons living in private househols
    Personsliving in non-private dwellings,group dwellings
    Persons with no fixed place of abode (Socially displaced or homeless)
    Persons including visitors and crew on vessels in port at the time of the census
    Diplomatic personnel and their families present in the country at the time of the census
    Persons living on offshore islands which are gepgraphically part of saint Lucia

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Central Statistics Office
    Producers
    Name Role
    Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Technical Assistance
    Carribbean Community Secretariat Technical Assistance
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    Ministry of Finance

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2001-04-17 2001-05-31
    Time periods
    Start date End date Cycle
    2001-05-22 2001-05-22 Census Day

    access_policy

    Access authority
    Name URL Email
    Statistics Department statsdept@candw.lc
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes Confidentiality of respondents is guaranteed; the Statistics Act Chapter 17.12, Volume 19 of the revised laws of St. Lucia 2001 requires that all information collected from the census must be kept confidential. The Statutory instruments of the Census Regulation states that:
    "Penalties. Enumerators, Supervisors and all other census employees are liable to prosecution under section 9 of the Ordinance for divulging information obtained during the conduct of the census."
    Citation requirements
    Persons using this version of the dataset should use the following citation: "Central Statistics Office of St. Lucia, Population and Housing Census 2001, Version 2.0 (June 2008) of the dataset".

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer
    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Email URL
    Statistics Department statsdept@candw.lc

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID
    DDI_WB_LCA_2001_PHC_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production
    2011-09-13

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    Version 01 (September 2011)
    This is a modified version of the DDI documented by Majella Louis (ref. DDI _SLC_CSO_PHC2001_v1.0).
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