Sample characteristics: Chile

Census characteristics

1960

1970

1982

1992

2002

Title

XIII Censo General de Población. II Censo de
Vivienda

XIV Censo Nacional de Población y III de Vivienda

XV Censo Nacional de Población y IV de Vivienda

XVI Censo Nacional de Población y V de Vivienda

XVII Censo Nacional de Población y VI de
Vivienda

Census agency

Dirección de Estadísticas y Censos, Ministerio de
Economía

Dirección de Estadística y Censos

Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas

Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas

Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas

Population
universe

All people residing in the country at midnight
November 29, 1960 (i.e. between November 28 and 29). In particular,
every person that spent the night in the enumerated household.
Including members of the family which for job related or special
reasons slept away or were absent at midnight (e.g. guards,
physicians, nurses, policemen, absent due to a party or funeral).

All living people at midnight April 22, 1970 (i.e.
between April 21 and 22).

All people who spent the night before April 21, 1982
in a specific dwelling.

All people who spent the night before April 22, 1992
in a specific dwelling.

All people who spent the night before April 24, 2002
in a specific dwelling. And people who usually reside there but
spent the night outside for job related reasons. Exclude people
traveling to other cities.

De jure or de
facto

De facto

De facto

De facto

De facto

De facto

Census day

November 29, 1960

April 22, 1970

April 21, 1982

April 22, 1992

April 24, 2002

Field work period

November 29, 1960

April 22, 1970

Determined by the Chief of the Census Zone

April 22, 1992

April 24, 2002

Enumeration forms

Single enumeration form, which requested information
on dwellings and individuals.

Single enumeration form, which requested information
on dwellings, households and individuals.

Single enumeration form, which requested information
on dwellings, households and individuals.

Single enumeration form, which requested information
on dwellings, households and individuals.

Single enumeration form, which requested information
on dwellings, households and individuals.

Type of field
work

Face to face interview (direct enumeration).
Enumerators were appointed by the communal commissions of the
Republic, and preference was given to public servants, teachers,
members of the armed forces, members of social and cultural
entities, notable neighbors, students of the highest learning
courses (“alumnos de los cursos superiores de enseñanza”), etc. Once
chosen, enumerators were trained.

Face to face interview (direct enumeration) performed
by trained personnel.

Face to face interview (direct enumeration) performed
by trained personnel.

Face to face interview (direct enumeration) performed
by trained personnel.

Face to face interview (direct enumeration) performed
by trained personnel.

Respondent

Head of household or person that is replacing
her/him.

Head of household. In her/his absence interview
spouse or domestic partner, older children, or other non-relatives
associated with the household.

Head of household. In her/his absence, any other
adult.

Request information directly from every head of
household and all ahousehold members aged 14 and older. For people
aged less than 14 request information from the head of the
household, and in her/his absence from any other present adult.

Apparently, individuals ages 15 and over.

Microdata sample characteristics

1960

1970

1982

1992

2002

Microdata source

Celade

Celade

Celade

Celade

Celade

Sample design

—

Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling.

Systematic sample of every 10th household.

Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling.

Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling.

Sample unit

Individual

Dwelling

Household

Dwelling

Dwelling

Sample fraction

1.2%

10%

10%

10%

10%

Sample size (person
records)

88,184

890,481

1,133,062

1,335,055

1,513,914

Sample weights

Self-weighting.

Expansion factor = 83.

Self-weighting.

Expansion factor = 10.

Self-weighting.

Expansion factor = 10.

Self-weighting.

Expansion factor = 10.

Self-weighting.

Expansion factor = 10.

Units identified

1960

1970

1982

1992

2002

Dwellings

Not available in microdata sample

Yes

Not available in microdata sample

Yes

Yes

Vacant units

Not available in microdata sample

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Households

Not available in microdata sample

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Individuals

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Group quarters

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Unit definitions

1960

1970

1982

1992

2002

Dwellings

Any functionally separate and independent premises or
enclosure that has been constructed, made, converted, or prepared
for purposes of permanent or temporary lodging of people, as well as
any type of accommodation, stationary or mobile, occupied as a place
of lodging on the date of the census. Therefore, the following
constitute a dwelling: a) A house, apartment, flat, room or group of
rooms, shack, etc., that is independent and meant for providing
lodging to a group or people or a single person; b) a craft (boat),
vehicle, boxcar, tent, etc. as well as any other type of
accommodation (granary, shed), occupied as a place of lodging on the
date of the census.

Any structurally separate and independent premises or
enclosure constructed, converted, or prepared for permanently or
temporarily housing people.

Any separate and independent place of habitation
constructed, converted or prepared for permanently or temporarily
housing people.

Any separate and independent place of habitation
constructed, converted or prepared for permanently or temporarily
housing people. A house, an apartment, a room in a tenement, a
cabin, an improved shack [mejora], a hospital, a barracks, a
boardinghouse, a hotel, are dwellings.

Structure equipped for the permanent or temporary
lodging of people, with separate and independent access. They can
be: fixed or mobile; made of various materials; and house one or
more households.

Private
Households

A private or family dwelling is one used as a
separate and independent abode or domicile by a person who lives
alone or by a family or a group of people, related or unrelated, who
live together under a family system.

This corresponds to the currently common idea of a
family, which is one that includes two or more related people, who
satisfy their food needs together and occupy all or part of a
dwelling.

House, apartment, tenement dwelling, squatter
settlement, shack, rustic hut, or cabin that has 5 boarders or
fewer.

Is one made up of a single person or a group of
related or unrelated people who live together. That is, they eat and
stay together.

A private household is composed of one or more
persons, either related or unrelated, that: 1) live in the same
dwelling; 2) share a single, common budget; 3)eat together,
regardless of the ownership or type of kitchen used; 3) recognize a
household head among themselves.

Group Quarters

This type of dwelling is used or meant to be used as
a place of lodging for a group of people who are not necessarily
related, but who generally live together for reasons of discipline,
health, teaching, military or religious life, work, etc. Other such
dwellings in this category are: correctional facilities, military
barracks, hospitals, boarding schools, hotels, convents, boarding
houses, retirement homes, workers camps, etc.

Formed by groups of, normally unrelated, people who
share a dwelling due to reasons of health, discipline, religion,
studies, etc.

Residential guesthouse that has the same structural
characteristics as private dwellings. Private dwellings with 6 or
more boarders will also be included here.

Is one made up of a group of unrelated people who
live together for reasons of health, work, religion, study,
discipline, etc.

A group of unrelated people that share a dwelling, or
part of one, and live communally for reasons of health, work,
religion, study, discipline, etc. A collective household does not
have a household head.

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