Sample characteristics: Ecuador
| Census characteristics | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 1974 | 1982 | 1990 | 2001 | 2010 | |
| Title | Censos de Población y Vivienda, 1962 | III Censo de Población y II de Vivienda, 1974 | IV Censo de Población y III de Vivienda, 1982 | V Censo de Población y IV de Vivienda, 1990 | VI Censo de Población y V de Vivienda, 2001 | VII Censo de Población y VI de Vivienda, 2010 |
| Census agency | Departamento de los Censos Nacionales | Oficina de Censos Nacionales, Junta Nacional dePlanificación | Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos | Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos | Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos | Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos |
| Population universe | Everyone who spent the night of November 24 to November 25 in a Dwelling in Ecuador. Including individuals that spent the night away for special reasons (e.g. away for a party or a funeral, physicians, guards). | — | Everyone who spent the night of November 27 to November 28 in a Dwelling in Ecuador. Including individuals who usually reside at the household, but were away for special reasons (e.g. physicians, army personnel, fishermen). | Everyone in Ecuador on November 25 at 0 hours. | Everyone in Ecuador who spent the night of November 24 to November 25. there is an additional part of the enumeration form that requests information on members of the country that moved out of the country within the previous 5 years. | Everyone in Ecuador who spent the night of November 27 to November 28. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto | De facto | De facto | De facto | De facto | De facto |
| Enumeration unit | Dwelling | — | Dwelling | Dwelling | Dwelling | Dwelling |
| Census day | November 25, 1962 at 0 hours | June 8, 1974 | November 28, 1982 Note that the enumeration form has November 14 scratched and replaced by November 28. The latter date corresponds to the date given by Ecuador’s census authority. |
November 25, 1990 | November 25, 2001 | November 28, 2010 |
| Field work period | — | Urban population in one day and rural population in eight days. | Urban population in one day and rural population in eight days. | — | — | Urban population in one day and rural populations from November 28 through December 5, 2010. |
| Enumeration forms | Single enumeration form that requested information on dwellings and individuals. | Single enumeration form that requested information on dwellings and individuals. | A single enumeration form that requested information on dwellings and individuals, but the field work was divided into urban and rural enumerator’s manuals. | Single enumeration form that requested information on dwellings, hoseholds and individuals. | Single enumeration form that requested information on dwellings, hoseholds and individuals. | Single enumeration form that requested information on dwellings, hoseholds and individuals. |
| Type of field work | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel. | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel. The enumerators in urban areas were students supervised by their teachers and personnel from the census office. In rural areas teachers and other paid personnel were the enumeratiors. | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel. The enumerators were teachers and students. | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel. The enumerators were teachers and secondary students from the terminal years. | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel, mainly secondary students from the terminal years and university students. | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) conducted by trained personnel, mainly students (urban areas) and teachers (rural areas). |
| Respondent | — | An individual who is responsible for the family, ideally the head of the household or his wife. Guests and boarders were to be interviewed directly. | Head of the household or an adult. | Head of the household or whomever represents the household. | Head of the household or whomever represents the household (always someone aged 12 or older). | Head of the household or whomever represents the household. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 1974 | 1982 | 1990 | 2001 | 2010 | |
| Microdata source | Celade | Celade | Celade | Celade | Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos | Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos |
| Sample design | — | Systematic sample was drawn from the 13.6% stratified sample developed by the statistical office. | Systematic sample of every 10th household. | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling. | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling. | Systematic sample of every 10th dwelling. |
| Sample unit | Individual | Household | Household | Dwelling | Dwelling | Dwelling |
| Sample fraction | 3% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% |
| Sample size (person records) | 136,443 | 648,678 | 806,834 | 966,234 | 1,213,725 | 1,448,233 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting. Expansion factor = 33. |
Computed by census agency and should be used for most types of analysis. Weights were inflated to adjust for the lower sample fraction of the IPUMS sample. | Self-weighting. Expansion factor = 10. |
Self-weighting. Expansion factor = 10. |
Self-weighting. Expansion factor = 10. |
Self-weighting. Expansion factor = 10. |
| Units identified | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 1974 | 1982 | 1990 | 2001 | 2010 | |
| Dwellings | Not available in microdata sample | Not available in microdata sample | Not available in microdata sample | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vacant units | Not available in microdata sample | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Households | Not available in microdata sample | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Individuals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Group quarters | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Province | Cantons with 20,000+ population in 2001 | Cantons with 20,000+ population in 2001 | Cantons with 20,000+ population in 2001 | Cantons with 20,000+ population in 2001 | Cantons with 20,000+ population in 2001 |
| Unit Definitions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 1974 | 1982 | 1990 | 2001 | 2010 | |
| Dwellings | Any fixed or mobile, structurally separate or independent premises or enclosure that has been built or made, converted or prepared for the purpose of permanently or temporarily housing a census household. | There is a discrepancy between the enumerator’s manual (where dwellings are divided into family and non-family) and the enumeration form (where dwellings are divided into private and collective). There is no formal definition of dwelling in either document. | Housing premises meant for habitation, which even when it may not have been originally built for housing people, is being occupied as a dwelling at the time the Census is taken. | This is the space of housing quarters with an independent entry, constructed, built, transformed or conditioned to be inhabited by one or more persons, as long as it is not being completely used for a different purpose. Dwellings are also the mobile or improvised housings and spaces not designated as living quarters that are inhabited in the moment that the census is taken, such as: boats, caves, tents, wagons, etc. | A premise or place of lodging with independent access, constructed, built, transformed, or ready to be inhabited by one or more people, as long as it is not exclusively used for a different purpose at the Time of the Census. Also considered dwellings are mobile and improvised dwellings and places not meant for living in, but which are inhabited at the time the Census is taken, such as: barges, caves, tents, train cars, etc. | A premise or place of lodging with independent access, constructed, built, transformed, or ready to be inhabited by one or more people, as long as it is not exclusively used for a different purpose at the Time of the Census. Also considered dwellings are mobile and improvised dwellings and places not meant for living in, but which are inhabited at the time the Census is taken, such as: barges, caves, tents, train cars, etc. |
| Households | Census Family.- A group of people, generally related, who live together under a family system. It is made up in most cases by a Head of Family, their relatives (spouse or consensual union partner, children, grandchildren, etc.), close friends, guests, domestic servants and any occupant who lives in the same dwelling and shares the same food. Any person who lives alone in a family dwelling also makes up a census family. | House or villa, Apartment, room in a rooming house, “mediagua” (construction with roof sloping in only one direction), ranch, shack, other. | House or villa, Apartment, room in a rooming house, “mediagua” (construction with roof sloping in only one direction), ranch, shack, other. | A separate and independent housing unit which houses one or various households (the households are formed by one or more persons, related or not, who eat out of the same pot and sleep in the same dwelling). An individual dwelling is also a dwelling that is not designated for housing persons, but is occupied as a dwelling at the time of the census. | A separate premises or place of lodging with independent access intended for accommodating one or more households (a household is considered a person or group of people, related or not by kinship bonds, that cooks their food separately and sleeps in the same dwelling). Also considered a private dwelling is one which, though not meant for human lodging, is occupied as such at the time the census is taken. | A separate premises or place of lodging with independent access intended for accommodating one or more households. |
| Group Quarters | Unrelated Group- A group of generally unrelated people who live together for reasons of discipline, health, teaching, religious or military life, work, or other reasons and who reside in non-family dwellings such as: hospitals, clinics, hotels, guesthouses, jails, reformatories, barracks, convents, etc. | Hotel or pension, military or police barracks, hospital, convent, boarding school, other. | Hotel or pension, military or police barracks, hospital, convent, boarding school, other. | This is a dwelling that is inhabited by a group of persons who share the dwelling for reasons of health, discipline, religion, etc, such as hotel, residences, barracks, hospitals, convents, homes for the elderly, etc. | Is a dwelling inhabited by a group of people who share it due to reasons of health, discipline, religion, etc., such as: hotels, boarding houses, barracks, hospitals, convents, retirement homes, military camps, jails, etc. | Is a dwelling inhabited by a group of people who share it due to reasons of health, discipline, religion, etc., such as: hotels, boarding houses, barracks, hospitals, convents, retirement homes, military camps, jails, etc. |
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