Sample characteristics: Mongolia
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population and Housing Census 1989 |
| Statistical agency | National Statistical Office of Mongolia |
| Population universe | All population inside Mongolia and abroad |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | January 5, 1989 |
| Field work period | January 5-9, 1989 |
| Questionnaire | There are three enumeration forms: 1) census questionnaire, 2) household questionnaire, and 3) housing questionnaire. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interview |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Cluster sample of entire districts (soums) or portions of districts. Every province has some districts sampled.
NOTE: Because of extreme clustering, the sample weights may not ensure representative results for all types of analyses. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 190631 |
| Sample weights | Weights designed to yield the proper age structure for each province based on published census results. Household weights are computed as the mean of the person weights in the unit. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province (aimag) |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Not specified |
| Households | One or more individuals who live under one roof, have either family or relationship relation, and have one budget. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population and Housing Census 2000 |
| Statistical agency | National Statistical Office of Mongolia |
| Population universe | All population inside Mongolia and abroad |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | January 5, 2000 |
| Field work period | January 5-11, 2000 |
| Questionnaire | There are three enumeration forms: 1) census questionnaire, 2) household questionnaire, and 3) housing questionnaire. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interview |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth household. Drawn by IPUMS from 100% microdata. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 243725 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighted. Expansion factor = 10. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Not specified |
| Households | A single persons or two or more related or unrelated persons who share food and other essentials, such as pooling of income. |
| Collective dwellings | The place in which a group of unrelated persons live together but are not members of a household, such as dormitories, military divisions, hospitals, holiday homes, sanatoriums, and caring homes. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 2010 Population and Housing Census |
| Statistical agency | National Statistics Office of Mongolia |
| Population universe | Citizens of Mongolia who are residing within the territory of Mongolia; foreigners and stateless persons who are residing in Mongolia for more than 183 days and were granted residence permits from authorized organizations; citizens of Mongolia who are working at diplomatic missions, consulates, and international organization abroad and their family members; citizens of Mongolia who are working, studying, and staying abroad for private reasons |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | November 11, 2010 |
| Field work period | November 11-17, 2010 |
| Questionnaire | Single questionnaire form including population and housing questions. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interview |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th household after a random start. Drawn by the National Statistical Office of Mongolia. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 264823 |
| Sample weights | Weights calculated based on the household selection probability within Aimag. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | District (soum) |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Not specified |
| Households | A group of persons who reside in the same housing unit and have a common arrangement for budget and provision of food and basic needs. Household members can hold family, kinship, and relative ties, and some households can not necessarily be related to each other at all. |
| Collective dwellings | A group of persons living together in a room, dwelling, or part of a dwelling, in a student dormitory, a worker residence, military barracks, prison, hospital, sanatorium, nursing home, or hotel and having no family, kin, or relative ties |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 2020 Population and Housing Census of Mongolia |
| Statistical agency | National Statistics Office of Mongolia |
| Population universe | Mongolian citizens who are residing within the territory of Mongolia; foreigners and stateless persons who are residing in Mongolia for more than 183 days and were granted residence permits from authorized organizations; Mongolian citizens who are working at diplomatic missions, consulates, and international organization abroad and their family members; Mongolian citizens who are working, studying, and staying abroad for private reasons |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | January 9, 2020 |
| Field work period | January 9-15, 2020 |
| Questionnaire | Short-form questionnaire through register-based methods and long-form questionnaire through traditional census data collection methods. |
| Type of fieldwork | Combination of direct enumeration (long-form) and register-based data collection (short-form) |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th household after a random start, selected from combined dataset including 90% short-form register-based data and 10% long-form data. Drawn by the National Statistical Office of Mongolia. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 333402 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | District (soum) |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Not specified |
| Households | A group of persons who reside in the same housing unit and have a common arrangement for budget and provision of food and basic needs. Household members can hold family, kinship, and relative ties, and some households can not necessarily be related to each other at all. |
| Collective dwellings | A group of persons living together in a room, dwelling, or part of a dwelling, in a student dormitory, a worker residence, military barracks, prison, hospital, sanatorium, nursing home, or hotel and having no family, kin, or relative ties |