Sample characteristics: Costa Rica
| Census characteristics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 1973 | 1984 | 2000 | |
| Title | VI Censo Nacional de Población y II de Vivienda | Censos Nacionales- Mayo de 1973. III de Vivienda – VII de Población | Censos Nacionales 1984. Octavo Censo Nacional de Población. Cuarto Censo Nacional de Vivienda | Censos Nacionales IX de Población y V de Vivienda 2000 |
| Census agency | Dirección General de Estadísticas y Censos | Dirección General de Estadísticas y Censos, Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio | Dirección General de Estadísticas y Censos, Ministerio de Economía y Comercio | Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos |
| Population universe | All occupied dwellings including all individuals living in the country at midnight April 1, 1963 (i.e. between March 31 and April 1). | All individuals residing in the country at midnight May 15, 1973 (i.e. between May 14 and May 15). | All live individuals at midnight June 11, 1970 (i.e. between June 10 and June 11) | All live individuals at midnight June 28, 2000 (i.e. between June 27 and June 28). |
| De jure or de facto | De jure | De jure | De jure | De jure |
| Enumeration unit | Dwelling | Dwelling | Dwelling | Dwelling |
| Census day | March 31, 1963 | May 14, 1973 | June 11, 1984 at 0 hours | June 28, 2000 at 0 hours |
| Field work period | Clearly longer than April 1, 1963. | Clearly longer than May, 1973. | — | — |
| Enumeration forms | Single enumeration form that requested information on the dwelling and individuals. | Single enumeration form that requested information on the dwelling and individuals. | A single enumeration form requested information on the dwelling and household, and a single enumeration form requested information of the individuals. | A single enumeration form requested information on the dwelling and household individuals. There is an additional enumeration form for indigenous populations. |
| Type of field work | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel mainly selected from a pool of teachers. | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel mainly selected from a pool of teachers and students. | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel. | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel. |
| Respondent | A member responsible for the family, ideally the head of the family. After the second visit interview children, servants or neighbors if no other household member is available. | A member responsible for the family, ideally the head of the family. After the second visit interview children, servants or neighbors if no other household member is available. | The person that given her/his age and position within de family is the best possible respondent. Ideally the head of the household, the wife or an older member. Otherwise a servant or a neighbor. | The person that given her/his age and position within the household can provide the most accurate answers. Ideally the head of the household, the spouse or a member aged 15 or older. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 1973 | 1984 | 2000 | |
| Microdata source | Celade | Celade | Celade | Celade |
| Sample design | — | Systematic sample of every 10th household. | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling. | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling. |
| Sample unit | Person | Household | Dwelling | Dwelling |
| Sample fraction | 6.0% | 10% | 10% | 10% |
| Sample size (person records) | 82,345 | 186,762 | 241,220 | 381,500 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting. Expansion factor = 17. |
Self-weighting. Expansion factor = 10. |
Self-weighting. Expansion factor = 10. |
Self-weighting. Expansion factor = 10. |
| Units identified | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 1973 | 1984 | 2000 | |
| Dwellings | Not available in microdata sample | Not available in microdata sample | Yes | Yes |
| Vacant units | Not available in microdata sample | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Households | Not available in microdata sample | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Individuals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Group quarters | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special populations | — | — | — | Indigenous People Questionnaire |
| Smallest geography | Cantons with 20,000+ population in 2000; combined as necessary by MPC | Cantons with 20,000+ population in 2000; combined as necessary by MPC | Cantons with 20,000+ population in 2000; combined as necessary by MPC | Cantons with 20,000+ population in 2000; combined as necessary by MPC |
| Unit Definitions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 1973 | 1984 | 2000 | |
| Dwellings | Every place or premises structurally separate or independent, that has been built, converted or available for purposes of lodging or housing of persons, temporarily or permanently, such as any other class of lodging, fixed or mobile, occupied as living quarters on the date of the Census. | A building or house occupied entirely by a Census Family or Non Family Group. If a building or house is divided into flats or rooms, each flat or room inhabited by a different Census Family or Non Family Group constitutes a separate dwelling. | Any independent premises within the total installation that has been equipped to lodge persons and permits them to reside there for many reasons (they are watchpersons or guards of an industry for example). | Premises that human beings use to sleep, prepare and consume their meals, also for protecting themselves from the weather and that has the following characteristics: a) SEPARATE- surrounded by walls and covered by a roof; b) constructed, transformed, fixed or available for the LODGING OF PERSONS or that, although not designed for this purpose, is inhabited by persons at the moment of the carrying out the census; c) INDEPENDENT: with entrances or direct access to the street or through halls, stairs, patios, corridors, a public or communal terrace, etc., which does not oblige persons to pass through the interior of other houses in order to leave or enter it. |
| Private Households | A group of persons who form a Census Family. It is used as living quarters by a Census Family, which can constitute a single person. | CENSUS FAMILY: It is a group of persons with or without family ties, that lives together under a set of family rules. It can constitute also a person who lives alone. Generally a Census Family consists of a Head of Family, the relatives who live with the Head and those persons who participate in this common life for reasons of work (servants and laborers) or other ties. | Separate and independent premises that are meant to lodge a single person (INDIVIDUAL DWELLING) or a group of persons (one or many HOMES) that can have family ties or not, but that are distinguished because they live together and because they prepare and consume their own food. A dwelling is not considered individual when the home established here has six or more persons considered as “Others non family” (Pensioned, etc.) agreeing with question 1 of the Population Census form. | PRIVATE HOME- A group of persons who, having family ties between them or not, reside usually in the same individual dwelling, live together and buy and consume their own food. Examples of private home are: family homes formed by father, mother, children and other family members; a single person; a Group of students who rent an apartment together. INDIVIDUAL DWELLING- Separated or independent premises designed to lodge one or more private homes, such as: a neighborhood or residential house, shacks made of straw, palm or cane; an apartment; a hovel; a room with an independent entrance that is rented in a dwelling. |
| Group Quarters | A group of persons who form a Non Family Group and use the space as living quarters. | NON FAMILY GROUP: Group of persons, generally without family ties, that lives together for reasons of discipline, health, education etc. such as those who live in jails, reformatories, hotels, boarding houses, boarding school, etc. Include also families who have six or more boarders. | Those places, buildings and houses in which the sick, police, prisoners for various crimes, young or children delinquents, workers, students, religious persons, the elderly or other groups that carry out or live together under the same roof. These places, buildings or houses in which groups of persons live without family ties between them, or that is, who being NON FAMILY groups, have been designated by the government, by a private company or other institution, to resolve problems or social necessities like health, discipline, security, social adaptation, work in places far from the family dwelling, old age, being orphaned, poverty, study or religious life, etc. | COLLECTIVE HOME- A group of persons without family ties between them, but who live together for reasons of discipline, health, education, religious life, work, such as: a group or body of nuns who reside usually in a convent; students in a boarding school; guests of a hotel; a group of elderly persons who reside in a nursing home; interns in jail. COLLECTIVE DWELLING- Place, office or house designed by the government, a private company or other institution for resolving problems or social needs, such as convents, hotels, jails, orphanages or worker booths. |
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