Sample characteristics: China

Census characteristics

1982

Title

Third National Population Census

Census Agency

National Bureau of Statistics

Population
Universe

Population census includes everyone who holds Chinese
citizenship and resides in the country, personnel of embassies,
consulates and other missions in foreign countries and staff,
experts, students and trainees abroad.

De jure or de
facto

De jure

Enumeration unit

Households

Census day

July 1, 1982

Field work period

Unknown

Enumeration forms

A single questionnaire for regular and collective
households.

Type of field
work

Direct enumeration

Respondent

Not specified

Microdata sample characteristics

1982

Microdata source

National Bureau of Statistics

Sample design

Systematic Sampling

Sample unit

Households

Sample fraction

0.1%

Sample size (person
records)

1,002,691

Sample weights

Self-weighting

Expansion factor = 1000.

Units identified

1982

Dwellings

Not identified

Vacant units

No

Households

Yes

Individuals

Yes

Group quarters

Yes (collective households)

Unit definitions

1982

Dwellings

Not applicable

Households

Domestic household: A group of individuals who are
either relatives or non-relatives, live in one residential unit and
are registerered as one household. Collective household: A group of
individuals who live in the same dormitory in a college (or school)
or in the same living quarters for staff and workers in a factory or
other organization.

Group quarters

Unknown

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