Population and Housing Census 2011
Nauru, 2011 - 2013
Identification
SPC_NRU_2011_PHC_v01_M
Population and Housing Census 2011
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Nauru | NRU |
Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]
The Nauru Population and Housing Census 2011 is funded by UNFPA and AusAID. Technical assistant was provided by the SPC/SDP from Noumea. The Census night took place on 30th October 2011 at 12 midnight. The fieldwork was scheduled to complete in 2 weeks and the final schedule was given 1-2 weeks extension time for supervisor's editing of forms.
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Region/EA Identity
Household questionnaire
Person questionnaire
Version
version 1 - edited data; not anonymized; bases for published reports
2012-07-16
Scope
The scope of the Census includes:
- HOUSEHOLD: Household characteristics, household listing, water and sanitation, crops, livestock, mortality
- PERSON: Demographic characteristics, child mortality, education, labour force, fertility
Coverage
- National
- District
- Enumeration area
- Household members
The survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents), all household, all population, all age, all sex, all nationality
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Nauru Bureau of Statistics | Nauru Government |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Secretariat of the Pacific Community/ Statistics for Development | Nauru Government | Technical assistant |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| United Nations Population Funds | Donor for Equipments, Printing of Training manuals and questionnaires and report publications |
| Australian Agency for International Development | Donor for Staff Allowances, Meetings, Publicity, Transportation, Communication and 10% contingency |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| United Nations Population Funds | Nauru Governement | Donor |
| Australian Agency For International Development | Nauru Governement | Donor |
| Secretariat of the Pacific Community/ Statistics for Development | Nauru Government | Technical Assistant |
Sampling
Not applicable to a full enumeration census
Not applicable to a full enumeration census
96%
Not applicable to a full enumeration census
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-10-31 | 2012-07-18 | Collection |
| 2013-06-28 | Listing |
| Start date |
|---|
| 2012-07-18 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Local Public | Bureau of Statistics |
Supervisor
Preference 1: Census Listing 2011 enumerators
Preference 2: Training according to test results
Preference 3: Enumeration experiences
Preference 4: Leadership skills
Interviewing was conducted by 45 interviewers and 9 supervisors. Enumerators reports to the supervisor to 9 different agreed reporting center, to finalise completed forms or may need to revisit incompleted households.
The role of the supervisor was to coordinator field enumeration activities, including management of the field enumerators, supplies and equipment, maps and listings, coordinate with local authorities concerning the survey plan. Additionally, the field supervisor assigned the work to the interviewers, spot checked work, maintained field control documents, and sent completed questionnaires and progress reports to the central office. Also responsible for reviewing each questionnaire at the end of the day, checking for missed questions, skip errors, fields incorrectly completed, and checking for inconsistencies in the data. Also observed interviews and conducted review sessions with interviewers.
Responsibilities of the supervisors are described in the Instructions for Supervisors and Enumerators, together with the different field controls that were in place to control the quality of the fieldwork.
Field visits were also made by a Census Coordinator or Assistant when Household respondent request during fieldwork. The senior staff of Nauru Bureau of Statistics also made 3 visits to field enumeration to provide support and to review progress.
Training was held at Meneng Hotel Tomano Room for 2 weeks.
- The training was conducted by section order:
- Cover IDs
- Household questions
- Demographic questions
- Education questions
- Labour Force questions
- Fertility questions
Three (3) short quiz were separately tested during training:
- Combination of Cover and Household
- Combination of Demographic and Education questions
- Combination of Labour Force and Fertility questions
Training was conducted by Bureau of Statistics and Technical Assistant from Secretariat of Pacific Community, Statistics Development and Population from Noumea.
Language used during training was English and Nauruan.
Language used during fieldwork training was usually Nauruan with local respondent, while English is used to non-Nauruan respondents.
Total recruitment were 54 participants.
Nine (9) supervisors were selected amongst the 54 participants during the training and determined by the results from the training short quiz.
The 9 supervisors determines to cover the singular 15 district.
One important role of supervisors is to try as much to cover the refusal cases with a maximum of 3 visits.
There were district combination cases of 2/15, 3/15, and 4/15.
The remaining 45 participants were recruited as the fieldwork enumerators (interviewers).
Enumeration pilot survey was done during the last 2 days (27th-28th Oct 2011) within the 2 weeks (17th-28th Oct 2011) training, especially to study and familiarise the enumeration areas.
Two (2) questionnaire forms for each 46 enumeration areas.
The census consultation program also involves community leaders.
Average time interviewing houshold with 6 repondents (1 form) is between 30-40 minutes.
Data processing
Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing, including:
a) Office editing and coding
b) During data entry
c) Structure checking and completeness
d) Secondary editing
Data appraisal
Not applicable to a full enumeration census
Data quality tables are available to review the quality of the data and include the following:
Table H1. District by Type of building
Table H2. District by Materials of Outerwalls
Table H3. District by Period building first constructed
Table H4. District by type of tenure
Table H5A. District by Number of household rooms
Table H5B. District by Number of household dining rooms
Table H5C. District by Number of household kitchen
Table H5D. District by Number of household total rooms
Table H6. District by Shared bathroom
Table H7. District by Shared kitchen
Table H8A. District by Materials of roofing
Table H8B. District by Roofing condition
Table H9A. District by Materials of guttering
Table H9B. District by Condition of guttering
Table H10A. District by Materials for downpipe
Table H10B. District by Condition for downpipe
Table H11. District by Downpipe connected to storage
Table H12. District by Main source of drinking water
Table H13. District by Main source of water in general
Table H14. District by Water storage capacity
Table H15. District by Material of water storage
Table H16. District by water availability during 'dry' periods
Table H17. District by household sharing main water supply
Table H18. District by Source of water when scarce
Table H19A. District by purpose of underground water usage
Table H19B. District by Abstraction of underground water usage
Table H20. District by Main toilet facility
Table H21. District by Toilet flushed with water sources
Table H22. District by Toilet flushed drainage system type
Table H23A.District by items working order (For sustaining quality of life)
Table H23B. District by items working order (ICT and communications)
Table H23C. District by items working order (Commercial or subsistence value)
Table H24. District by Main source of lighting
Table H25. District by main fuel for cooking
Table H26. District by main source of electricity
Table H27. District by Household subsistence activities
Table H28. District by household have a kitchen garden
Table H29. District by Agricultural Activities
Table H30. District by Livestock
Table H31. District by Cash Inflow during last three months
Table H32. District by any household member died last 3 years
Table 1 . Total Households and Population by District Nauru:2011
Table 2. District by Broad Age Group and P2. Sex, Nauru:2011
Table 3. Population by single age by sex, Nauru:2011
Table 4. Population by District and 5 year age group and sex, NAURU:2011
Table 5. Population by District, Relationship to head of household by sex, NAURU:2011
Table 6 . Population by 5 year age group, and relationship to head of household by sex, NAURU:2011
Table 7. Population by District and Religion, Nauru:2011
Table 8. Population by religion, 5 year age group,Nauru:2011
Table 9. Population by district by country of birth, Nauru:2011
Table 10. Population by country of birth, 5 year age group and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 11. Population by district, whether mother still alive and living in the household, Nauru:2011
Table 12. Population by district and whether father is still alive, Nauru:2011
Table 13. Population by district, marital status and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 14. Population by 5 year age group, marital status and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 15. Population by district, mothers local tribe and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 16. Population by 5 year age group, mothers local tribe and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 17. Population by district, whether married to a Nauruan and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 18. Population by 5 year age group whether married to Nauruan and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 19. Population by district, nationality and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 20. Population by 5year age group, nationality and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 21. Population by district, citizenship and sex
Table 22. Population by 5 year age group, citizenship and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 23. Population by district and difficulties, Nauru:2011
Table 24. Male population by district and difficulties, Nauru:2011
Table 25. Female population by district and difficulties, Nauru:2011
Table 26. Population by 5 year age group and difficulties, Nauru:2011
Table 27. Male Population by 5 year age group and difficulties, Nauru:2011
Table 28. Female Population by 5 year age group and difficulties, Nauru:2011
Table 29. Population by district, currently attending school and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 30. Popualtion 15 years and over, school attendace and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 31. Population 15 years and over by district , type of education institution attending, Nauru:2011
Table 32. Population 15 years and over by type of education institution attending and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 33. Population 15 years and over by highest qualification completed and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 34. Population 15 years and over by main activity and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 35. Population 15 years and over by labour force participation and sex, Nauru:2011
Table 36. Female population aged 15 years and over ever given birth, Nauru:2011
Table 37. Female population aged 15 years and over by total Children ever born
Table 38. Female population aged 15 years and over by total male born, Nauru:2011
Table 39. Female population aged 15 years and over by total female born, Nauru:2011
Table 40. Female population aged 15 years and over and total children ever born, Nauru:2011
Table 41. Female population aged 15 years and over and total male ever born, Nauru:2011
Table 42. Female population aged 15 years and over and total female ever born, Nauru:2011
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nauru Bureau of Statistics | Secretariat of the Pacific Community/ Statistics for Development | http://www.spc.int/prism/country/nr/stats/ | ipia.gadabu@naurugov.nr |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBITIES OF THE BUREAU According to the Statistics Act (No.10 of 1992), the functions of the Bureau are defined as follows: To constitue the central statistical authority for the Republic of Nauru To collect, compile, analyse and disseminate statistics and related information To ensure coordination of the operation of the official bodies and others in the collection, compilation and dissemination of statistics and related information To formulate, and ensure compliance with standards, for the carrying out by official bodies of operations for statistical purposes To provide advice and assistance in relation to statistics, and To liaise between Nauru and other countries and international organisations in relation to statistical matters Each new proposal for the collection of information for statistical purposes by the Bureau shall be approved by the cabinet before its implementation, unless the proposal is for the collection of information on a voluntary basis. STATISTICAL INFORMATION TO BE COLLECTED The Director: a ) may from time to time may collect such statistical information in relation to the matters prescribed for the purpose of this section as he or she considers appropriate; and b ) shall, if the Minister so directs by notice in writing, collect such statistical information in relation to the matters so prescribed in the notice. More information about the Bureau's act can be accessed through the link below. |
Disclaimer and copyrights
Full analysis report to be disseminated and to be used by International researchers, planners, policy makers, stakeholders and donors.
For further access to data must go through officially signed MOU/LOU document from both parties, Nauru government and the secondary party.
Nauru Population and Housing Census 2011
Contacts
| Name | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Director for Bureau of Statistics | ipia.gadabu@naurugov.nr | http://www.spc.int/prism/country/nr/stats/ |
Metadata production
DDI_SPC_NRU_2011_PHC_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Lindsay Thoma | Nauru Bureau of Statistics | Census2011 Documentation |
2012-07-16
Metadata version
Version 01 (July 2012). First documentation for Nauru Population and Housing Census 2011 during Micronesia Sub-Regional workshop on Micro-Data in July 16th-20th in 2012.