Sample characteristics: El Salvador

Census characteristics
  1992 2007
Title of census 5th Census of Population 6th Census of Population
Census agency General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses
Population universe All people who live in the country and all households nationally.
De jure or de facto De jure De jure
Enumeration unit Dwelling Dwelling
Census day 27 September 1992 12-27 May 2007
Field work period 27 September to 11 October 1992
Enumeration forms used Census questionnaire containing questions on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population, dwelling unit characteristics, emigration, and mortality. Census questionnaire containing questions on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population, dwelling unit characteristics, emigration, and mortality.
Type of field work Direct enumeration Direct enumeration
Coverage

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Microdata sample characteristics
  1992 2007
Microdata source General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses
Sample design Stratified systematic sample. Stratified systematic sample.
Sample unit Households Households
Sample fraction 10% 10%
Sample size (person records) 510,760 574,364
Sample weights Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) Self-weighting (expansion factor=10)

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Units Identified in Microdata
  1992 2007
Dwellings No Yes
Vacant units Yes No
Households Yes Yes
Individuals Yes Yes
Group quarters Yes Yes
Settled/Unsettled Population
Special populations Homeless Homeless
Smallest geography Department Department

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Unit Definitions (Census)
  1992 2007
Dwellings All places defined by walls and roofs where one or more people live regularly, that is where they sleep, cook and protect themselves from the elements. Also people can enter and leave the mentioned without passing through another house, having direct access from the street, passage, path or passing through common areas such as patios, hallways, corridors or stairs. An enclosure intended to be used as the living space [habitación] of one person or a group of persons who make up one or various households. The dwelling may be an independent house [casa independiente], an apartment, a room in a house, room in a tenement, a hut, an improvised dwelling, a premise not intended for human habitation, or other (mobile dwelling, tent, etc.)
Households Group of people who live as a family People who live together and share food expenses
Group quarters This is a place or building where a group of people without family ties resides and share the space for reasons of lodging, health, education, military, religion, old age, orphanhood, etc. This includes hotels, boarding houses, guest houses, hospitals, homes for the elderly, internment schools, hospices, jails, etc. This is a premise or building where a group of persons without family ties lives and which they share for reasons of accommodation, age, status as orphans, etc. The following are included in this category: homes for children or orphanages, retirement homes, jails, guest houses or boarding houses, boarding schools, etc.
     

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