Sample characteristics: Fiji
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Census of the Population 1966 |
| Statistical agency | Fiji Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All people who spent the night before September 12, 1966 in a specific dwelling, including the visitors. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | September 12, 1966 |
| Field work period | The interviews take place on the expected census day. The field work could start ten days before the Census: the enumerator could visited every household in his/her area to ennumerate all persons who were expected to spent the census night in the area. The field work will continue the following 4 days, to check the original entries and to record and changes which had ocurred between the preliminary enumeration and the Census day. |
| Questionnaire | Single enumeration form that requested information on individuals. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling with a random start, drawn by IPUMS |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 47579 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province. Provinces with less than 20,000 population in 2014 are combined with other provinces. |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | An independent dwelling is a detached dwelling housing a single household and which is not joint to any other dwelling by one or more walls and is not in a building used also as a shop or a factory. |
| Households | Those persons who usually eat together food prepared for them in the same kitchen and who together share the work and cost of providing the food are called a household. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 1976 Population Census |
| Statistical agency | Fiji Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All people who spent the night before September 13, 1976 in a specific dwelling, including the visitors. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | September 13, 1976 |
| Field work period | The interviews take place on the expected census day. The field work could start ten days before the Census: the enumerator could visited every household in his/her area to ennumerate all persons who were expected to spent the census night in the area. The field work will continue the following 3 days, in which the ennumerator will revisit each household for the purpose of rechecking the first record and to add details of newly born children, new arrivals; and delete persons who have died of left the household. |
| Questionnaire | Single enumeration form that requested information on individuals. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling with a random start, drawn by IPUMS |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 57214 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | Province. Provinces with less than 20,000 population in 2014 are combined with other provinces. |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | An independent dwelling is a detached dwelling housing a single household and which is not joint to any other dwelling by one or more walls and is not in a building used also as a shop or a factory. |
| Households | Those persons who usually eat together food prepared for them in the same kitchen and who together share the work and cost of providing the food are called a household. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 1986 Population Census |
| Statistical agency | Fiji Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All people who spent the night before August 31, 1986 in a specific dwelling, including the visitors. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | August 31, 1986 |
| Field work period | The interviews take place on the expected census day. |
| Questionnaire | Single enumeration form that requested information on hoseholds and individuals. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling with a random start, drawn by IPUMS |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 72158 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province. Provinces with less than 20,000 population in 2014 are combined with other provinces. |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | An independent dwelling is a detached dwelling housing a single household and which is not joint to any other dwelling by one or more walls and is not in a building used also as a shop or a factory. |
| Households | Those persons who usually eat together food prepared for them in the same kitchen and who together share the work and cost of providing the food are called a household. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 1996 Population Census |
| Statistical agency | Fiji Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All people who spent the night before August 25, 1996 in a specific dwelling, including the visitors. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | August 25, 1996 |
| Field work period | The interviews take place on the expected census day. |
| Questionnaire | Single enumeration form that requested information on hoseholds and individuals. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling with a random start, drawn by IPUMS |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 77382 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province. Provinces with less than 20,000 population in 2014 are combined with other provinces. |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | An independent dwelling is a detached dwelling housing a single household and which is not joint to any other dwelling by one or more walls and is not in a building used also as a shop or a factory. |
| Households | Those persons who usually eat together food prepared for them in the same kitchen and who together share the work and cost of providing the food are called a household. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 2007 Population and Housing Census |
| Statistical agency | Fiji Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All people who spent the night before September 16, 2007 in a specific dwelling, including the visitors. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | September 16, 2007 |
| Field work period | The interviews take place on the expected census day. |
| Questionnaire | Single enumeration form that requested information on hoseholds and individuals. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling with a random start, drawn by IPUMS |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 84323 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province. Provinces with less than 20,000 population in 2014 are combined with other provinces. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Household Listing Exercise |
| Title | 2013-2014 Housing Listing Exercise |
| Statistical agency | Fiji Bureau of Statistics |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | March to December 2013 |
| Field work period | March to December 2013 |
| Questionnaire | Single enumeration form that requested information on households and individuals |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by IPUMS |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 86372 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province. Provinces with less than 20,000 population in 2014 are combined with other provinces. |