| Census/survey characteristics |
| Type |
Census |
| Title |
Population and Housing Census 2004 |
| Statistical agency |
The Population and Housing Census |
| Population universe |
All population inside Jordan regardless of their nationality and Jordanians abroad for less than one year |
| De jure or de facto |
De facto, but also including Jordanians who have resided abroad for less than one year |
| Census/survey day |
October 1, 2004 |
| Field work period |
October 2-8, 2004; Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2004 (post-enumeration) |
| Questionnaire |
Five types of register are used: 1) private household register, 2) collective household register, and 3) hotel lodgers register, and 4) buildings and housing units register for both private and collective households, and 5) reminder questionnaire. |
| Type of fieldwork |
Direct interview |
| Estimated undercount |
4.1% |
| Microdata sample characteristics |
| Sample design |
Systematic sample of every 10th private household or every 10th person in collective households with a random start, combined with stratification. Drawn by the country. Thirty formed strata include 6 cities with over 100,000 population, 12 urban strata and 12 rural strata. |
| Sample fraction |
0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) |
510646 |
| Sample weights |
Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10) |
| Units identified in microdata |
| Dwellings |
Yes |
| Vacant units |
No |
| Households |
Yes |
| Collective dwellings |
Yes |
| Smallest geography |
District |
| Unit definitions |
| Dwellings |
Housing unit is a building or part of it with walls and ceiling, virtuous for residence of one or more household regardless of its occupancy at time of census. For the census purposes, each occupied place at time of the census is considered as a housing unit whether designated for use as shops. |
| Households |
A household, consisting of one person or more, with a head, sharing with each other one separated housing unit or part of it. The members of household participate in expenditures from the income of head of household or from some household members. |
| Collective dwellings |
Group of persons without a head of household sharing with each other one collective housing unit and don't participate in residence arrangements such as lodgers of hotels, prisons and hospitals, students, and so on. Armed forces residing in camps or in other military institutions are excluded from this definition. Collective household also includes every group of persons (6 persons or more) residing in a conventional housing unit, with no relative ties and each one of them depends on himself for living even if he participates with others in some meals. |
| Special populations |
Armed forces, nomads, Jordanians abroad |