Sample characteristics: Papua New Guinea
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Population Census |
| Statistical agency | National Statistics Office |
| Population universe | All persons present in the country on census day |
| De jure or de facto | De facto, except for villagers visiting urban areas |
| Census/survey day | Unknown |
| Field work period | Two weeks from census day |
| Questionnaire | Separate urban and rural forms. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth dwelling drawn by IPUMS from 100% microdata, including both urban and rural census form respondents |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 296165 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A dwelling is simply a place where people live. |
| Households | In villages a household is simply a family group. |
| Collective dwellings | Special dwellings are places sucha s hostels, work quarters for men, hospitals, hotels, corrective institutions anad so forth. Thes places mostly have single people living in them. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Population Census |
| Statistical agency | National Statistics Office |
| Population universe | All persons present in the country on census day |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | July 11, 1990 |
| Questionnaire | Separate urban and rural forms. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth dwelling drawn by IPUMS from 100% microdata, including both urban and rural census form respondents |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 360807 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Census |
| Statistical agency | National Statistics Office |
| Population universe | All persons present in the country on census day |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | July 9, 2000 |
| Questionnaire | A single census form for dwellings and persons |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth dwelling drawn by IPUMS from 100% microdata |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 520609 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Households | A person or group of persons living and eating together and sharing the arrangements for cooking and the other necessities of living. The household members may be related or unrelated. |
| Collective dwellings | Non-private dwellings are special dwellings such as barracks, educational institutions, hostels, hotels, guesthouses, hospital wards, police cells and prisons. They include persons without fixed addresses such as street people. |