Sample characteristics: Bolivia
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Census of Housing and Population 1976 |
| Statistical agency | National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Coordination, Republic of Bolivia |
| Population universe | All the population in the national territory at the moment the census is carried out. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | July 10, 1976 |
| Questionnaire | A single booklet that consists of sections on geographic location, dwelling, and population (individual) |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration via house-to-house visits and personal interviews |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth dwelling with a random start; drawn by IPUMS |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 461699 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Dwelling is the physical place of inhabitation. Dwellings are classified as private and collective. |
| Households | Household is a person or group of persons who occupy a dwelling. |
| Collective dwellings | Collective dwelling is a group of persons who share a dwelling without family rules, for reasons of health, discipline, religion, punishment, etc. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Census of Housing and Population 1992 |
| Statistical agency | National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Coordination, Republic of Bolivia |
| Population universe | All the population in the national territory at the moment the census is carried out. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | June 3, 1992 |
| Questionnaire | A single booklet that consists of sections on geographic location, dwelling, and population (individual) |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration via house-to-house visits and personal interviews |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth dwelling with a random start; drawn by IPUMS |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 642368 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Dwelling is any inhabited physical place, constructed or adapted for housing people. |
| Households | Household is a group of people, related or otherwise, who occupy the dwelling. |
| Collective dwellings | Collective houshold is a group of people who share the dwelling in a non-familial system, for reasons of work, health, discipline, religion, punishment, etc. |
| Special populations | Homeless, passengers in transit (international flights), personnel on duty in hospitals, factories, institutions, and other places, employees of the National Institute of Statistics, embassies and consulates |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Census of Housing and Population 2001 |
| Statistical agency | National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Coordination, Republic of Bolivia |
| Population universe | All the population in the national territory at the moment the census is carried out. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | September 1, 2001 |
| Questionnaire | A single booklet that consists of (1) Identification of the census form, (2) Dwelling type and occupancy, (3) Characteristics of dwellings with inhabitants who are present, (4) Individual form |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration via house-to-house visits and personal interviews |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth dwelling with a random start; drawn by IPUMS |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 827692 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A dwelling is a construction that has one or more floors covered by a roof and is constructed or adapted for the habitation of one or more persons, either permanently or temporarily. |
| Households | A household is made up of one or more persons, related or unrelated, who live in the same dwelling and who at least share a common budget for meals to which each person contributes in money or in kind. One person can also constitute a household. |
| Collective dwellings | A collective dwelling is inhabited by a group of persons, usually unrelated, who lie together but not as a family. |
| Special populations | Homeless, persons located in truck stops and in markets, passengers in transit (international flights), personnel in hospitals, factories, institutions, or other, enumerators and area supervisors, and embassies and consulates.
Indigenous persons. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Census of Housing and Population 2012 |
| Statistical agency | National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and Coordination, Republic of Bolivia |
| Population universe | All the population in the national territory at the moment the census is carried out. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | November 11, 2012 |
| Field work period | November 21 to 23, 2012 |
| Questionnaire | A single booklet that consists of sections on geographic location, dwelling, household emigration, household mortality, and population (individual) |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration via house-to-house visits and personal interviews |
| Estimated undercount | 0.032 |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Sample drawn by the National Statistical Office. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 1003516 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A dwelling is any room or set of rooms and their outbuildings that occupy a building or a separated part of a building, and that are used for human habitation, and which, at the time of the census, is not fully used for other purposes. A dwelling must have direct access from public spaces or from common spaces without passing through another dwelling. Dwellings also include any fixed or mobile shelter in which a person spent the night before Census Day. |
| Households | Private households are persons who live together in a dwelling because of familial or emotional ties. |
| Collective dwellings | A collective dwelling is inhabited by a group of persons who live there for reasons of age, health, education, religion, work, or imprisonment,etc. Examples include a hotel, inpatient hospital, homes for the elderly or for children, religious boarding schools, barracks, jails, prisons, etc. |
| Special populations | People in transit are those who are passing through a census site and who have a different usual residence. People who live on the street are those who have no dwelling. |