Census of population and housing refers to the entire process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing, and publishing data about the population and the living quarters in a country. It entails the listing and recording of the characteristics of each individual person and each living quarter as of a specified time and within a specified territory. It is the source of information on the size and distribution of the population as well as its demographic, social, economic, and cultural characteristics. These information are vital for making rational plans and programs for national and local development.
In April 2011, a national census of population and housing was conducted in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). It is the 11th census of population to be undertaken in this century since the first census was undertaken in 1920.
The 2011 Census of Population and Housing is designed to take an inventory of the total population and housing units in the RMI and to collect information about their characteristics. The census of population is the source of information on the size and distribution of the population as well as information about the demographic, social, economic and cultural characteristics. The census of housing, on the other hand, provides information on the supply of housing units, their structural characteristics and facilities which have bearing on the maintenance of privacy, health and the development of normal family living conditions. These information are vital for making rational plans and programs for social and economic development.
v1.0: Edited data, for internal use only.
COVER RECORD - contains the total number of persons per household including the number of males and females. This record also contains coverage information such as completed dwellings, completed institutions and non-responses.
HOUSING RECORD - contains all household level questions such as household level discriptors.
AGRICULTURE RECORD - contains all agriculture items tallied at the household level.
PERSON RECORD - contains all person level items
- Collection start: 2011
- Collection end: 2011
