Sample characteristics: Rwanda
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Recensement Général de la Population et de l’Habitat, 16-30 août 1991 |
| Statistical agency | Ministere du plan, Direction generale de la statistique |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | August 1, 1991 |
| Field work period | September 16th to 30th, 1991 |
| Questionnaire | One questionnaire for each one of the following statistical units: household, individual |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | A systematic sample of every 10th dwelling with a random start was drawn by the IPUMS. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 742918 |
| Sample weights | Not available |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Township |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Not available |
| Households | Not available |
| Collective dwellings | Not available |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | IIIème Recensement Général de la Population et de l’Habitat, 16-30 août 2002 |
| Statistical agency | Ministère des Finances et de la Planification Economique, Commission Nationale du Recensement |
| De jure or de facto | De jure and de facto |
| Census/survey day | (Night from) August 15th to 16th, 2002 |
| Field work period | August 16th to 30th, 2002 |
| Questionnaire | One questionnaire for each one of the following statistical units: household, individual |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | A systematic sample of every 10th dwelling with a random start was drawn by the IPUMS. |
| Sample fraction | 10% |
| Sample size (person records) | 843392 |
| Sample weights | Not available |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A dwelling unit may encompass one or several rooms, may be located as a separate building or part of a set of houses located in a land patch or compound [parcelle or urupangu]. |
| Households | A private household is a set of persons, related by blood or not, who acknowledge the authority of a same person called the “head of household,” and who share in majority their resources or expenses. They live most of the time under the same roof or in the same compound [enclos/urugo]. |
| Collective dwellings | An institutional household is a group of persons who live together in special conditions, and who are most often not related by blood. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 4th Populatioin and Housing Census |
| Statistical agency | National Institute of Statistics |
| Population universe | All residents of the country at the time of the census |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | August 16, 2012 |
| Field work period | Two weeks from census day |
| Questionnaire | Separate forms for private and institutional dwellings and their occupants |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | 10% sample drawn by national statistics office |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 1038369 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Households | A private household consists of one or more persons living together and sharing at least one daily meal, it consists also of one person or more persons or a group of unrelated persons living together under the authority of a household head. |
| Collective dwellings | The institutional household comprises the group of persons who are living, working, or studying under prescribed rules. They include the homeless, overnight travelers and institutional population who reside in military barracks, hostels, hospitals, prisons, hotels and lodges, etc. As mentioned earlier, separate living households within an institution constitute separate households. |