Preparations with a pilot census for the 2020 register based census of Abu Dhabi

摘要

Many countries use administrative registers as an alternative to a field census enumeration, in order to save time, effort and money. Using administrative registers enables periodically updates of the population count and characteristics, without the long collection and processing period with the completion of a field enumeration census. Timely periodically updates are particularly useful for countries that undergo rapid population changes, as is the case in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in general, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in particular. The Statistics Centre of Abu Dhabi (the Centre) has thus decided to launch a project to develop a register-based census for the census 2020. This requires building a database, and maintaining its sustainability, and populating it with data on a continuous basis. For this purpose, coordination has been established with the entities owning the administrative registers, with the support of senior management in those data providing agencies. These efforts have resulted in the signing of service level agreements, and data have begun to flow to the Centre by virtue of these agreements. The Centre has established specialised registers, such as population register, employees register, unemployed register, education register, and people with disabilities register. The paper presents the different steps of preparations for the 2020 register-based census of Abu Dhabi, in general, and the process to conduct an administrative records based pilot census in particular.