2011 2011 Housing and Population Census Housing and Population Census

in the Czech Republicin the Czech Republic

UNECE – Eurostat Meeting on Population and Housing Censuses

Geneva, May 2012

Basic information

• 2011 Population census in the Czech Republic used for first time combination of paper and electronic forms.

• All households obtained the paper forms with ID and they had possibility to chose which type of forms they can use – the paper or the e-form.

• The households had the same period for completion of the both types of forms – 4 weeks.

• Both types of the forms were pre-completed using data from administrative sources (permanent address, characteristics of houses).

Technical characteristics

• The best intersection between functionality and openness to be the Adobe technology with the PDF format and the Adobe Acrobat application. Advantage for users: the Adobe Reader multiplatform is available for free.

• The electronic questionnaires were developed as separate PDF document for each type of form – persons, buildings and dwellings form.

• The e-forms looked like their paper versions.

• The distribution and the collection of the e-forms were conducted from two separate localities.

Technological infrastructure

High-speed internet connection

Internet provider's network

www.scitani.cz

ITO HP Backup Locality Network

Secured Data Centre Network

Traffic in standard mode

Backbone connection

Backup connection

Public user access

eform*.scitani.cz

eform*.scitani.cz

Internet

info.scitani.cz

www.scitani.cz

info.scitani.cz

Traffic in backup mode

High-speed internet connection

Information and education

• Educational campaign trough mass-media focused on different target groups of the population several months before the decisive moment of the census.

• The CZSO launched a special WWW presentation for the public with information about access to the e-forms, their filling, advantages and data protection.

E-forms flow

Data protection

• The technology had to guarantee the personal data protection within all phases of data collection and processing.

• Access to the pre-filled e-forms only with the original ID and a security code (2 keys).

• Completed forms were not saved in the computer due to utilization of PCs in the public rooms, libraries etc.

• Confirmation about delivery of the e-forms to the CZSO.

Questionnaires Collection

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Electronic census forms – results

• Totally collected 4,33 mil e-forms.

• The share of e-forms in all filled forms attained 25,5%.

• The highest number of e-forms collected per day – 1. day = 506 000 forms.

• 44 % of all e-forms were sent during the first week.

• 40 % of all e-forms were filled between 6 and 10 p.m.

• Average time consumption for filling of one e-form was 10 minutes.

Electronics forms – results II.Typical person using e-forms:

• a man (50,2 %) or a woman (49,8 %)

• age 30 – 39 years (but oldest: one was aged 106 years,

youngest: 62 children were aged exactly one day on the

census decisive moment)

• secondary or university degree

• employee or entrepreneur

• large town (100 thous. and more)

• living at household with PC and connection on Internet.

Contacts, Information, Results

www.czso.cz

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