Tonga Statistics Department
Statistics for Development Division
2019-07-18
Nesstar Publisher
Population and Housing Census 2016
PHC 2016
SPC_COK_2016_PHC_v01_M
Cook Islands Statistics Office (CISO)
Supervisors
Enumerators
National Statistics Staff
Contact persons in the outer islands
Statistics New Zealand
(c) 2019 , Cook Islands Statistics Office
Nesstar Publisher
Cook Islands Government
Pacific Community
Current grant In kind
Taggy Tangimetua, Government Statistician
Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]
The is the tenth Census of Population and Dwelling, following those in 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991,1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011.
v01: Master file after data cleaning and labelling. Not yet de-identified
This version of the documentation does not include the dataset, as it is not yet available at the Pacific Community (SPC).
Cook Islands
Census
Energy
Water
Agriculture
Fishing
Fishing
Education
Fertility
Cook Islands
National coverage.
Households and Individuals.
A Dwelling Questionnaire must be completed for every occupied dwelling as at midnight on Census Night. A Personal Questionnaire must be completed for each and every man, woman and child alive at midnight on Census Night within the geographical boundaries of the Cook Islands, excluding those persons on foreign vessels, yachts and aircraft flying through or stopping temporarily (transit).
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Cook Islands Statistics Office
Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
After sending the forms to Statistics New Zealand for scanning, Cook Islands Statistics Office (CISO) staff then carry out the coding of the industries and occupation and the first visual editing if there are some inconsistencies in the questionnaire mainly using the Access software, and the tabulations is carried-out in both Access and Excel ready for analysis and report writing.
Once the post enumeration is done then all questionnaires are submitted to the main office by the supervisors. All the forms are sent to New Zealand and Statistics New Zealand scan all forms, and collate to a master file in Excel delimited file.
Government Statistician
"Cook Islands Statistics Office, Population and Housing Census 2016 (PHC 2016), Version 01 preserved dataset (July 2019), provided by the Microdata Library. https://microdata.pacificdata.org/index.php/home"
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.