Sample characteristics: Guinea
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | General Census of Population and Housing, 1983 |
| Statistical agency | National Census Bureau, Popular Revolutionary Republic of Guinea |
| Population universe | The entire population of the country, including all households and dwellings. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | February 1, 1983 |
| Field work period | February 1-15, 1983 |
| Questionnaire | "The Household and Dwelling Form" and "Buildings and Households Form" |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interviews of individuals in their normal dwellings conducted by trained personnel. |
| 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) | 457837 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Sub-prefecture |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | The dwelling unit is a premise or grouping of premises used for habitation by a household at the time of the census. |
| Households | A private household is made up of a grouping of people, related or not, who recognize the authority of the same individual, who is called "head of househhold", and who live under the same roof or in the same compound and who take their meals together. A household can be reduced to a single person. A collective household is made up of a group of people with no family relationship who are living together within the same institution forreasons of health, study, travel, punishment (dsicipline) or other. |
| Collective dwellings | A collective household is made up of a group of people with no family relationship who are living together within the same institution for reasons of health, study, travel, punishment (dsicipline) or other. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | General Census of Population and Housing, 1996 |
| Statistical agency | National Census Bureau, Republic of Guinea |
| Population universe | The entire population living in the country's national territory at a given point in time. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | December 1, 1996 |
| Field work period | December 1-15, 1996 |
| Questionnaire | "The Household questionnaire" and "The Identification and Numbering of Households and Buildings Form" |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interviews of individuals in their normal dwellings conducted by trained personnel. |
| 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) | 729071 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Sub-prefecture |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | The dwelling unit is a building or a collection of buildings used for living by a household. |
| Households | Two types of households are distinguished. The ordinary household is composed of a collection of people, related or not, who recognize the authority of a single individual who is called "head of household", and who live under the same roof or in the same compound and take their daily meals together. A person living alone, who provides for his or her own basic needs consitutues a household. The collective household is composed of a group of persons without a priori family relationship, who live together within a single institution for reasons of health, study, work, travel, punishment or other. |
| Collective dwellings | The collective household is composed of a group of persons without a priori family relationship, who live together within a single institution for reasons of health, study, work, travel, punishment or other. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Third General Census of the Population and Inhabitants |
| Statistical agency | National Institute of Statistics |
| Population universe | The resident population, defined as all people who lived for at least six months in the households where they were enumerated or who intend to stay there for at least six months. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | March 1, 2014 |
| Field work period | March 1 to April 2, 2014 |
| Questionnaire | The Ordinary Household Questionnaire |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interviews of individuals in their normal dwellings conducted by trained personnel. |
| 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) | 1050916 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | Sub-prefecture |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | The dwelling is a building or collection of buildings used as the living unit of the household. |
| Households | A household is a set of people who live together. An ordinary household is as an individual or a group of people live together to collectively meet their food and other vital needs. It is made up of a group of people, related or not, who recognize the authority of an individual called the "head of household", live under the same roof or in the same compound and take their meals together. |
| Collective dwellings | A collective household is made up of a group of people, without a priori family tie, who live together in the same institution for health, study, work, travel, disciplinary or other reasons. Examples of collective households are boarding schools, barracks and military boarding schools, prisons, hotels, hospitals, convents, orphanages, boarding schools, etc. |