Sample characteristics: Rwanda

Census characteristics

1991

2002

Title of census

Recensement Général de la Population et de l’Habitat,
16-30 août 1991

IIIème Recensement Général de la Population et de
l’Habitat, 16-30 août 2002

Census Agency

Ministere du plan, Direction generale de la
statistique

Ministère des Finances et de la Planification
Economique, Commission Nationale du Recensement

Population

—

—

Universe

—

—

De jure or de
facto

De facto

De facto

Enumeration unit

Household

Household

Census day

August 1, 1991

(Night from) August 15th to 16th, 2002

Field work period

September 16th to 30th, 1991

August 16th to 30th, 2002

Enumeration forms
used

One questionnaire for each one of the following
statistical units: household, individual

Type of field
work

Direct enumeration

Direct enumeration

Respondent

Householder

Householder

Coverage

—

—

Microdata sample characteristics

1991

2002

Microdata source

statistique

Sample design

Not available

—

Sample unit

Not available

Dwelling for private dwellings. Person for collective
dwellings.

Sample fraction

10%

10%

Sample size (person
records)

742,918

843,392

Sample weights

Not available

—

Units Identified in Microdata

1991

2002

Dwellings/housing
units

Yes

Yes

Vacant units

Yes

Yes

Households
(Private)

Yes

Yes

Individuals

Yes

Yes

Group quarters/Institutional
Households

Yes

Yes

Settled/Unsettled
Population

Yes

Yes

Special
populations

Yes

Yes

Unit Definitions (Census)

1991

2002

Dwellings

Not available

A dwelling unit may encompass one or several rooms,
may be located as a separate building or part of a set of houses
located in a land patch or compound [parcelle or urupangu].

Households
(Private)

Not available

A private household is a set of persons, related by
blood or not, who acknowledge the authority of a same person called
the “head of household,” and who share in majority their resources
or expenses. They live most of the time under the same roof or in
the same compound [enclos/urugo].

Group quarters/Institutional
Households

Not available

An institutional household is a group of persons who
live together in special conditions, and who are most often not
related by blood.

Unsettled
population

Not available

Not available

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