When El Salvador decided to conduct its first population and housing census in 17 years, the country’s census agency requested technical assistance from the U.S. Census Bureau’s International Programs Center (IPC).
The United States has conducted a decennial census since 1790 – and it’s still a monumental, ever-evolving task.
A census is typically the largest peacetime operation governments conduct to gather information about their nations’ diversity, health, wealth, education and other factors. It demands a lot of planning, resources, stakeholder coordination and political will to collect census data and disseminate the results.
Through collaboration agreements with these agencies, the IPC for 70 years has provided technical assistance to help more than 100 countries conduct censuses, manage survey operations and analyze data.
The global celebration of World Population Day today highlights the significance of population censuses.
Organizations like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recognize the importance of such data in helping to allocate federal funds and resources, plan and implement programs, and identify population in areas at risk for natural and humanitarian disasters.
Through collaboration agreements with these agencies, the IPC for 70 years has provided technical assistance to help more than 100 countries conduct censuses, manage survey operations and analyze data.
Some countries reach out directly to the Census Bureau and others do so through their USAID missions.
When enlisted to help another country with their census, the IPC uses the Census Bureau’s Tool for Assessing Statistical Capacity (TASC) to measure a country’s ability to conduct a census.
TASC helps identify areas where improvement is needed, which in turn helps justify the need for funding for training and equipment. It also provides a measure of the before-and-after results of various activities designed to boost countries’ census efforts.
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