SPC_TKL_2016_PHC_v02_M
Population and Housing Census 2016
Tuhiga igoa a Tokelau i te 2016
Name | Country code |
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Tokelau | TKL |
Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]
This is the third consecutive 5-yearly Census of Tokelau conducted by Statistics New Zealand. The first population counts took place in the late 1800's while the first Tokelauan census in which the Department of Statistics was involved in planning, development and design was the 1986 census. It was then followed by other censuses in: 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 then a population count in 2013. The latest census is the 2016 one.
The five-yearly Census of Population and Dwellings is a very important item on Tokelau’s agenda. Its results provide the most authoritative data on how many people we have, what the composition of their households is, what education level they have, how they contribute to Tokelau’s economy, and so on.
As a non-self- governing territory, Tokelau has a special constitutional relationship with New Zealand. This special relationship is strengthened by connections between the tiny Tokelau National Statistics Office (TNSO) and Statistics NZ. It is the latter organisation that has been largely responsible for the excellent Tokelau Censuses in 2006, 2011, and again in 2016.
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Individuals and Households.
Version 01: De-identifed, cleaned and labelled version of the Master file. This is the first systematic effort in documenting the 2016 Tokelau Census. All output documentation is available on the Tokelau website tinyurl.com/TokelauCensus but any efforts to collate data have been an internal matter so far. The DDI approach aims to make all Census material (albeit anonymised) internationally accessible.
2019-03-08
The datasets have been removed from the documentation.
-HOUSEHOLD: Dwelling age; number of rooms; sources of water; means of cooking; rubbish disposal; household items; access to Sky TV, internet; numbers of pigs and chickens; sources of income; combined annual household income
-INDIVIDUALS: Name (suppressed), sex, age (birthdates suppressed), relationship to household head; living where; ethnicity; life statisfaction; self-assessed health; religion; birth mother and father still alive; language skills: speaking and writing; early childhood ecudation; address 5 years ago; education and qualifications; marital status; paid and unpaid employment; smoking; sense of belonging; social contact; children given birth to
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PHC |
National coverage. Tokelauan employees of the Tokelau Public Service based in Apia (and their immediate families), were also interviewed in Apia on census day.
The Census covers residents of the non-self-governing New Zealand territory of Tokelau and includes Tokelau public servants and their families who are employed in Apia, Samoa. While visitors to Tokelau on Census night are also included, the ultimate aim of the Census is to provide an accurate assessment of the de jure population. This has in the Censusus of 2006, 2011 and 2016 been done to an exact definition who is included. Previous definitions have been less precise which makes long-term time serie less reliable.
Name | Affiliation |
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Tokelau National Statistics Office | Tokelau Government |
Statistics New Zealand | New Zealand Government |
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Statistics New Zealand | New Zealand Government | Contractor, Technical advice |
Pacific Community | Curator, Technical advice |
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Tokelau National Statistics Office | Finance and Operational support |
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Mike Berry | Statistics New Zealand | StatsNZ Census team leader |
Dr J.A. ("iapi") Jasperse | Tokelau National Statistics Office | Statistics Adviser |
Scott Pontifex | Pacific Community | Microdata curator |
N/A: Census.
Full Census, hence weighting does not apply.
Questions matched the previous Censuses' format in Paper Assisted Personal Interview (PAPI) as much as possible. The "skips" in PAPI proved a big time saver, and the internal checks for suitability of answers made quality control much faster.
The questionnaire was published in English with the Tokelauan translation for each question. It was divided into two sections:
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2016-10-18 | 2016-10-18 |
The 2016 Tokelau Census took place on Tuesday, 18 October 2016.
Name | Affiliation |
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Statistics New Zealand | New Zealand Government |
Tokelau National Statistics Office | Tokelau Government |
In Tokelau, SNZ recruited people from each atoll to work as district supervisors and interviewers - there were three district supervisors and 29 interviewers in the field.
Tokelauan employees of the Tokelau Public Service based in Apia (and their immediate families), were interviewed in Apia on census day by TNSO staff.
On Census day every person in Tokelau was interviewed. Tokelauan employees of the Tokelau Public Service (TPS) based in Apia (and their immediate families), were also interviewed in Apia on census day. The census forms and data collection methodologies used in Tokelau and Apia were different - they were altered to meet local requirements.
A person from their own atoll interviewed Tokelau respondents at their homes in Tokelau. The head of the household completed the household questionnaire and the individual questionnaires were answered by the individual or by the head of the household in the case of young children. Each household nominated their own head of household.
In this census, because of the new quality of life questions, it was particularly important that each individual answered their own individual questionnaire.
Two members of the Tokelau National Statistics Office were responsible for carrying out the collections process at the TPS office in Apia. The interviewer training was completed in one day, and interviews were completed at the Apia TPS office on census day. The TPS employee was asked about each member of their immediate family. We used a shorter version of the full individual questionnaire, which consisted of only basic demographic questions about each member of the household. No dwelling questions were asked in Samoa.
On each of Tokelau's atolls, one of the census management team oversaw field operations and undertook quality monitoring on census day.
Thanks to the Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) data collection method, it was possible to quality check census forms on census day as soon as the interviewers uploaded them. Supervisors helped the census management team to quality check every census form and if there were missing answers or errors found, the forms were sent back to the interviewers to fix. The ability to check the quality of answers was one of the major benefits of using tablets for data collection; it made the checking process faster and more thorough. This checking also ensured that the final population counts were able to be released only three weeks after census.
Not applicable: Census.
Given the small population size, no post-enumeration survey was done.
Organization name | Affiliation | URL |
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Tokelau National Statistics Office | Tokelau Government | tinyurl.com/TokelauCensus |
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Tokelau National Statistics Office | Tokelau Government | tinyurl.com/TokelauCensus | [email protected] |
Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
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yes | To offer a degree of confidentiality protection, and to ensure that Tokelau census tables are of good quality, we used a confidentiality calculation to control the size of tables produced for the census outputs. The confidentiality rule, called the 'mean cell size rule', states there must be on average two or more observations per cell before the information for a geographic area can be released. For the 2016 Tokelau Census there are three output geographies: national, atoll, and village. The smallest geography is village. The main purpose of these rules is to prevent tables from becoming sparse (that is, with many cells containing zeros and ones). |
Given the smal population of Tokelau, anonymised unit records will be available only to licenced users. Summary tables are freely available on the Tokelau website and as part of this DDI, in multi-tab Excel files.
"Tokelau National Statistics Office and Statistics New Zealand, Population and Housing Census 2016 (PHC 2016), Version 01 of the licensed datasets (March 2019) provided by the Pacific Microdata Library. https://microdata.pacificdata.org/index.php/home"
All care and diligence has been used in processing, analysing, and extracting data to provide this information. However, neither Tokelau National Statistics Office nor Statistics New Zealand can give a warranty it is error-free and will not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by the use directly, or indirectly, of the information in this publication.
Crown copyright (c) New Zealand and Tokelau 2017
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National Statistician | TNSO | [email protected] | tinyurl.com/TokelauCensus |
DDI_SPC_TKL_2016_PHC_v02_M
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Tokelau National Statistics Office | Tokelau Government | Documentation of the study |
Statistics for Development Division | Pacific Community | Review of the documentation |
2019-03-20
Version 01 (March 2019): This is the first attempt at documenting the 2016 Tokelau Population and Housing Census with the DDI packages Nesstar. All materials other than the raw data have been available since 2017 on the website tokelau.org.nz, specifically at tinyurl.com/TokelauCensus.
Version 02 (March 2019): This version is the review of the exisiting documentation. Done by Statistics for Development Division at Noumea, New Caledonia.