Manuals and Concepts

Guideline to Planning and Preparing Administrative Register based censuses in GCC Countries

These guidelines has been prepared to help statistical offices in the GCC region who are preparing to move to administrative register based censuses.   They are intended to be used by countries to help plan their census projects

published by GCC-STAT

Quality Guidelines for Administrative based Population and Housing Censuses in GCC Countries in the 2020 Round

.The Census Quality guidelines are underpinned by the Data Quality Framework for GCC Statistics and international best practices as set out in relevant United Nations Census manuals and guidelines.  Manuals and guidelines related to the use of Administrative data also provided valuable references.  Experiences from Nordic countries, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands and New Zealand have also informed the guidelines.