Sample characteristics: Haiti
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Recensement General de la Population du Logement et de l'Agriculture de 1971 |
| Statistical agency | Département des Finances et des Affaires Economiques, Institute Haïtien de Statistique |
| Population universe | All persons whose permanent place of residence was in Haiti on census day. This includes persons who were temporarily absent, defined as those who were absent for less than one year and intend to return. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | August 16, 1971 |
| Field work period | August 16-August 31, 1971 |
| Questionnaire | Two forms: Dwelling units and collective households |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interview. |
| Estimated undercount | No information is available |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | The original sample consisted of all of the urban population and 10% of the rural population by household. IPUMS International drew a 10% sample of the urban population and retained the full rural sample, adjusting weights accordingly. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 434869 |
| Sample weights | Self weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Arrondissement |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | See definition of household below. |
| Households | A household is most commonly a group of persons living together who are generally, but not necessarily, related. They live in the same place and generally take their meals together. A person living alone comprises a household. To simplify the census count, the concept of household does not require that household members share either their meals or their budget. Instead, the basic criterion is whether or not they share a housing unit. Thus, the number of units will be the same as the number of households, except if some of the units are vacant. |
| Collective dwellings | Persons living in institutions such as military barracks, hospitals, and boarding schools and cannot be directly connected to a head of household. Note that there may be private households living within the walls which contain institutional households, such as the household of a school or hospital director who occupies a separate housing unit in the school or hospital. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Recensement General de la Population et du Logement 1982 |
| Statistical agency | Département du Plan, Institute Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique |
| Population universe | All persons whose permanent place of residence was in Haiti on census day. This includes persons who were temporarily absent, defined as those who were absent for less than six months and intend to return. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | Unknown |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interview. |
| Estimated undercount | No information is available |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Little information is known about the sample design. Household level information is missing for some arrondissements. |
| Sample fraction | 0.025 |
| Sample size (person records) | 128770 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=40) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | Arrondissement |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | All rooms or all groups of rooms which, inside a larger construction, serve as a residence to a household or to one person living alone. If the building is entirely occupied by a single household or by one person living alone, this building is considered a residential unit or dwelling. |
| Households | A group of people generally related by blood, but not required to be so, living in the same residential unit and usually taking their meals together. A person living alone makes up a household. |
| Collective dwellings | Hotels, boarding homes, hospitals, barracks, etc |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Recensement General de la Population et de l'Habitat |
| Statistical agency | République d'Haïti Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances, Institute Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | January 11, 2003 |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interview. |
| Estimated undercount | No information is available |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling with a random start, drawn by the statistics agency. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 838045 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Arrondissement |
| Unit definitions | |
| Households | A group of people living in the same dwelling, usually but not necessarily related by blood, who recognize the authority of a household head, and usuaally taking their meals together. |
| Collective dwellings | The residence of individuals who live together in certain establishments, such as a hotel, boarding home, orphanage, or convent. These people live communally. |