Sample characteristics: Botswana
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population and Housing Census 1981 |
| Statistical agency | Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, Central Statistics Office |
| Population universe | Everyone living in Botswana regardless of age, citizenship, or resident status. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | August 12, 1981 |
| Field work period | 12-26 August, 1981 |
| Questionnaire | Household Questionnaire and Institutional Questionnaire |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct Enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic 1 in 2.5 sample of households from a 25% random sample of households, resulting in a 10% sample. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 97238 |
| 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 | Undetermined |
| Households | Those who live in a lolwapa or its equivalent if they eat from the same pot regardless of kinship. |
| Collective dwellings | Persons living in institutions including patients in hopsitals, persons staying in hotels, prisoners, BDF personnel in barracks and miners in hostels. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 1991 Population and Housing Census |
| Statistical agency | Central Statistics Office |
| Population universe | Everyone living in Botswana regardless of age, citizenship, or resident status. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | August 14, 1991 |
| Field work period | August 14-23, 1991 |
| Questionnaire | Household Questionnaire and Institutional Questionnaire |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct Enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth private household drawn by the Minnesota Population Center from 100% microdata |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 132623 |
| 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 | Consists of one or more structures or building, permanent or temporary, usually surrounded by a fence/wall or something to mark its boundaries. A lolwapa/dwelling may contain more than one household. |
| Households | One or more persons, related or unrelated, living together "under the same roof" in the same lolwapa/dwelling, eating together "from the same pot" and/or making common provisions for food and other living arrangments. |
| Collective dwellings | Persons living in instiutions including patients in hopsitals, persons staying in hotels, prisoners, BDF personnel in barracks and miners in hostels. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 2001 Population and Housing Census |
| Statistical agency | Central Statistics Office |
| Population universe | Everyone living in Botswana regardless of age, citizenship, or resident status. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | August 2001 |
| Field work period | Middle 2 weeks in August 2001 |
| Questionnaire | Household Questionnaire with 5 sections and Institutional Questionnaire |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct Enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth private household drawn by the Minnesota Population Center from 100% microdata |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 168676 |
| 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 | Consists of one or more structures or building, permanent or temporary, usually surrounded by a fence/wall or something to mark its boundaries. A lolwapa/dwelling may contain more than one household. |
| Households | One or more persons, related or unrelated, living together "under the same roof" in the same lolwapa/dwelling, eating together "from the same pot" and/or making common provisions for food and other living arrangments. |
| Collective dwellings | Persons living in instiutions including patients in hopsitals, persons staying in hotels, prisoners, BDF personnel in barracks and miners in hostels. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 2011 Population and Housing Census |
| Statistical agency | Central Statistics Office |
| Population universe | All persons in the country at the place where they are at census time regarless of their usual plac eof residence. In addition, include absent Botswanans and Botwanans living outside the country on the census night. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | August 22, 2011 |
| Field work period | August 22-31, 2011 |
| Questionnaire | Household Questionnaire and Institutional Questionnaire |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct Enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth private household drawn by the Minnesota Population Center from 100% microdata |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 201752 |
| 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 | Consists of one or more structures or building, permanent or temporary, usually surrounded by a fence/wall or something to mark its boundaries. A lolwapa/dwelling may contain more than one household. |
| Households | One or more persons, related or unrelated, living together "under the same roof" in the same lolwapa/dwelling, eating together "from the same pot" and/or making common provisions for food and other living arrangments. |
| Collective dwellings | Persons living in instiutions including pateints in hopsitals, persons staying in hotels, prisoners, BDF personnel in barracks and miners in hostels. |