Sample characteristics: Ecuador

Census characteristics

1962

1974

1982

1990

2001

Title

Censos de Población y Vivienda, 1962

III Censo de Población y II de Vivienda, 1974

IV Censo de Población y III de Vivienda, 1982

V Censo de Población y IV de Vivienda, 1990

VI Censo de Población y V de Vivienda, 2001

Census agency

Departamento de los Censos Nacionales

Oficina de Censos Nacionales, Junta Nacional
dePlanificación

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos

Population
universe

Everyone who spent the night of November 24 to
November 25 in a Dwelling in Ecuador. Including individuals that
spent the night away for special reasons (e.g. away for a party or a
funeral, physicians, guards).

—

Everyone who spent the night of November 27 to
November 28 in a Dwelling in Ecuador. Including individuals who
usually reside at the household, but were away for special reasons
(e.g. physicians, army personnel, fishermen).

Everyone in Ecuador on November 25 at 0 hours.

Everyone in Ecuador who spent the night of November
24 to November 25. there is an additional part of the enumeration
form that requests information on members of the country that moved
out of the country within the previous 5 years.

De jure or de
facto

De facto

—

De facto

De facto

De facto

Enumeration unit

Dwelling

—

Dwelling

Dwelling

Dwelling

Census day

November 25, 1962 at 0 hours

June 8, 1974

November 28, 1982

Note that the enumeration
form has November 14 scratched and replaced by November 28. The
latter date corresponds to the date given by Ecuador’s census
authority.

November 25, 1990

November 25, 2001

Field work period

—

Urban population in one day and rural population in
eight days.

Urban population in one day and rural population in
eight days.

—

—

Enumeration forms

Single enumeration form that requested information on
dwellings and individuals.

Single enumeration form that requested information on
dwellings and individuals.

A single enumeration form that requested information
on dwellings and individuals, but the field work was divided into
urban and rural enumerator’s manuals.

Single enumeration form that requested information on
dwellings, hoseholds and individuals.

Single enumeration form that requested information on
dwellings, hoseholds and individuals.

Type of field
work

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

Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted
by trained personnel. The enumerators in urban areas were students
supervised by their teachers and personnel from the census office.
In rural areas teachers and other paid personnel were the
enumeratiors.

Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted
by trained personnel. The enumerators were teachers and students.

Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted
by trained personnel. The enumerators were teachers and secondary
students from the terminal years.

Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted
by trained personnel, mainly secondary students from the terminal
years and university students.

Respondent

—

An individual who is responsible for the family,
ideally the head of the household or his wife. Guests and boarders
were to be interviewed directly.

Head of the household or an adult.

Head of the household or whomever represents the
household.

Head of the household or whomever represents the
household (always someone aged 12 or older).

Microdata sample characteristics

1962

1974

1982

1990

2001

Microdata source

Celade

Celade

Celade

Celade

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos

Sample design

—

Systematic sample was drawn from the 13.6% stratified
sample developed by the statistical office.

Systematic sample of every 10th household.

Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling.

Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling.

Sample unit

Individual

Household

Household

Dwelling

Dwelling

Sample fraction

3%

10%

10%

10%

10%

Sample size (person
records)

136,443

648,678

806,834

966,234

1,213,725

Sample weights

Self-weighting.

Expansion factor = 33.

Computed by census agency and should be used for most
types of analysis. Weights were inflated to adjust for the lower
sample fraction of the IPUMS sample.

Self-weighting.

Expansion factor = 10.

Self-weighting.

Expansion factor = 10.

Self-weighting.

Expansion factor = 10.

Units identified

1962

1974

1982

1990

2001

Dwellings

Not available in microdata sample

Not available in microdata sample

Not available in microdata sample

Yes

Yes

Vacant units

Not available in microdata sample

No

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

1962

1974

1982

1990

2001

Dwellings

Any fixed or mobile, structurally separate or
independent premises or enclosure that has been built or made,
converted or prepared for the purpose of permanently or temporarily
housing a census household.

There is a discrepancy between the enumerator’s
manual (where dwellings are divided into family and non-family) and
the enumeration form (where dwellings are divided into private and
collective). There is no formal definition of dwelling in either
document.

Housing premises meant for habitation, which even
when it may not have been originally built for housing people, is
being occupied as a dwelling at the time the Census is taken.

This is the space of housing quarters with an
independent entry, constructed, built, transformed or conditioned to
be inhabited by one or more persons, as long as it is not being
completely used for a different purpose. Dwellings are also the
mobile or improvised housings and spaces not designated as living
quarters that are inhabited in the moment that the census is taken,
such as: boats, caves, tents, wagons, etc.

A premise or place of lodging with independent
access, constructed, built, transformed, or ready to be inhabited by
one or more people, as long as it is not exclusively used for a
different purpose at the Time of the Census. Also considered
dwellings are mobile and improvised dwellings and places not meant
for living in, but which are inhabited at the time the Census is
taken, such as: barges, caves, tents, train cars, etc.

Private
Households

Census Family.- A group of people, generally related,
who live together under a family system. It is made up in most cases
by a Head of Family, their relatives (spouse or consensual union
partner, children, grandchildren, etc.), close friends, guests,
domestic servants and any occupant who lives in the same dwelling
and shares the same food. Any person who lives alone in a family
dwelling also makes up a census family.

House or villa, Apartment, room in a rooming house,
“mediagua” (construction with roof sloping in only one direction),
ranch, shack, other.

House or villa, Apartment, room in a rooming house,
“mediagua” (construction with roof sloping in only one direction),
ranch, shack, other.

A separate and independent housing unit which houses
one or various households (the households are formed by one or more
persons, related or not, who eat out of the same pot and sleep in
the same dwelling). An individual dwelling is also a dwelling that
is not designated for housing persons, but is occupied as a dwelling
at the time of the census.

A separate premises or place of lodging with
independent access intended for accommodating one or more households
(a household is considered a person or group of people, related or
not by kinship bonds, that cooks their food separately and sleeps in
the same dwelling). Also considered a private dwelling is one which,
though not meant for human lodging, is occupied as such at the time
the census is taken.

Group Quarters

Unrelated Group- A group of generally unrelated
people who live together for reasons of discipline, health,
teaching, religious or military life, work, or other reasons and who
reside in non-family dwellings such as: hospitals, clinics, hotels,
guesthouses, jails, reformatories, barracks, convents, etc.

Hotel or pension, military or police barracks,
hospital, convent, boarding school, other.

Hotel or pension, military or police barracks,
hospital, convent, boarding school, other.

This is a dwelling that is inhabited by a group of
persons who share the dwelling for reasons of health, discipline,
religion, etc, such as hotel, residences, barracks, hospitals,
convents, homes for the elderly, etc.

Is a dwelling inhabited by a group of people who
share it due to reasons of health, discipline, religion, etc., such
as: hotels, boarding houses, barracks, hospitals, convents,
retirement homes, military camps, jails, etc.

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