Sample characteristics: Cambodia

Census characteristics

1998

Title of census

General Population Census of Cambodia, 1998

Census Agency

National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of
Planning

Population

—

Universe

—

De jure or de
facto

De facto

Enumeration unit

Households

Census day

March 3, 1998

Field work period

March 3 to 12, 1998

Enumeration forms
used

Form A: Houselist and Form B: Household
Questionnaire. The latter for the information used here.

Type of field
work

Direct enumeration

Coverage

—

Microdata sample characteristics

1998

Microdata source

Planning

Sample design

Stratified systematic sample.

Sample unit

Households

Sample fraction

10%

Sample size (person
records)

1,141,254

Sample weights

Self-weighting (expansion factor=10)

Units Identified in Microdata

1998

Dwellings

Yes

Vacant units

No

Households

Yes

Individuals

Yes

Group quarters

Yes (institutional)

Settled/Unsettled
Population

Yes (boat, transient population)

Special
populations

Yes (homeless)

Unit Definitions (Census)

1998

Dwellings

A building is generally a single structure on the
ground. It is covered by a roof and usually enclosed within external
walls or with common dividing walls with adjacent buildings. In some
areas the very nature of construction of houses is such that there
may not be any wall. For example a conical roof almost touches the
ground and an entrance is also provided and there will not be any
wall as such. Such structures should be treated as buildings.

Households

A household is a group of persons who commonly live
together and would take their meals from a common kitchen unless the
exigencies of work prevented any of them from doing so.

Group quarters

An institutional household is a household of
unrelated persons like boarding houses, messes, hostels, residential
hotels, rescues homes, jails, pagodas etc. It should be noted that
if a group of persons who are unrelated to each other live in a
building/structure, but do not have their meals from a common
kitchen, then they would not constitute an Institutional
household.

Unsettled
population

Persons living in boats which are on the move are
referred to as boat population. Transient population includes the
following: (i) persons who stayed on Census Night in airports,
railway stations, bus stands, harbours, ferries and in carts (as
travellers) (ii) nomadic population who camped on Census Night in a
village (iii) persons who on Census Night stayed in ships within the
Cambodian territorial waters and (iv) persons who stayed on Census
Night at international border posts.

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