Sample characteristics: Mozambique
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | II Recenseamiento Geral da População e Habitação, 1997 |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estatística |
| Population universe | All persons who spent the night of 31 July 1997 in the country except diplomats residing in foreign embassies |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | August 1, 1997 |
| Field work period | August 1-15, 1997 |
| Questionnaire | A single enumeration form requested information on the individuals, the condition of the dwelling, agriculture production, and mortality. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic stratified sample of every 10th household with a random start, stratified by district and urban/rural status. Within each strata, records where ordered by smaller administrative unit as well as by housing characteristics (type of house, tenancy, wall material, roof material, floor material, water source, type of toilet, electricity), providing implicit stratification down to the EA level as well as by household characteristics. |
| Sample fraction | 10% (9.3) |
| Sample size (person records) | 1551517 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10). |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Administrative Post |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A site used for the accommodation of persons |
| Households | The entire group of people related or not by kinship, who live in the same house and share household expenses. If there are dependencies in a house or rooms occupied by domestic servants with their families or rented to another family, these groups should be considered as separate households. |
| Collective dwellings | An establishment where people live, temporarily or permanently, not as families or households but where they do share meals and are subject to an interest or common scheme. For the purposes of the census, hotels, homes, schools, asylums, barracks, hospitals, pensions, prisons, and other similar establishments fall into this category. If there are family habitations within the collective dwelling for administrative or service purposes, they must be considered as independent households. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | III Recenseamiento Geral da População e Habitação, 2007 |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estatística |
| Population universe | All persons who spent the night of 31 July 2007 in the country except diplomats residing in foreign embassies |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | August 1, 2007 |
| Field work period | August 1-15, 2007 |
| Questionnaire | A single enumeration form requested information on the individuals, the condition of the dwelling, agriculture production, and mortality. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by the country |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 2047048.0000000002 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10). |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Administrative Post |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A site used for the accommodation of persons |
| Households | The entire group of people related or not by kinship, who live in the same house and share household expenses. If there are dependencies in a house or rooms occupied by domestic servants with their families or rented to another family, these groups should be considered as separate households. |
| Collective dwellings | An establishment where people live, temporarily or permanently, not as families or households but where they do share meals and are subject to an interest or common scheme. For the purposes of the census, hotels, homes, schools, asylums, barracks, hospitals, pensions, prisons, and other similar establishments fall into this category. If there are family habitations within the collective dwelling for administrative or service purposes, they must be considered as independent households. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | IV Recenseamiento Geral da População e Habitação, 2017 |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estatística |
| Population universe | All people living in Mozambique and anyone else who is present in the country at the census moment of midnight on August 1st, 2017, regardless of their residency status. This includes: people who live in the house, whether usually or not, and who spent the reference night there; people who usually live in the family unit but who, for some reason, did not spend the reference night in the house, as long as the absence has lasted less than 6 months; and people who lived in the family unit, but who died after midnight of the reference night. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | August 1, 2017 |
| Field work period | August 1-15, 2017 |
| Questionnaire | A single enumeration form requested information on the individuals, housing, agriculture production, and mortality. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | One-stage stratified sample, with stratification based on districts and urban/rural residence. Selection within each stratum was by random systematic sampling, from a dataset sorted by geography and housing characteristics. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 2684503 |
| Sample weights | Weights computed by statistics institute should be used for most types of analysis. Weight calculation is based on the probability of selection within district. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | Administrative Post |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Any place intended for accommodating people |
| Households | The entire group of people related or not by kinship, who live in the same house and share meals (food from the same pot) and most of the household expenses. If there are dependencies in a house or rooms occupied by domestic servants with their families or rented to another family, these groups should be considered as separate households. People living alone in a residence should also be considered to be a household. |
| Collective dwellings | Facilities where people, typically without family ties, live together for reasons of health, education, tourism, military service, religion or for other reasons. For census purposes, this category includes: hotels, nursing homes, schools, assisted living facilities, barracks, orphanages, hospitals, boarding houses, jails, and other similar facilities. If, within an institutional household, there are family housings, intended for the administrative or service staff of the facility, its members must be considered as independent family units. |