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http:// economie.fgov.be The Belgian 2011 Census Seminar ‘Estimating social inequalities in Healthy Life Expectancy: Challenges and opportunities’ 10/02/2012
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The Belgian 2011 Census
Seminar ‘Estimating social inequalities in Healthy Life Expectancy: Challenges and
opportunities’10/02/2012
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Context : new methodology
Decision of the council of statistics and the government in 2000(1/10/2001 survey ↔ 1/01/2011 register based)
Administrative simplification
Results of feasibility study (2006)
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Context : content of the Census
European regulation 763/2008
User needs
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Population register
Education registers
Social security register
Tax register Sample surveys
Census 2001
CadastreRegister of enterprises
Register of buildings and
dwellings
Register of addresses
Census database Cubes dissemination
Results (DWH)
Source data
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Population
2 definitions– Based on the national population
• Asylum seekers excluded– Based on the Eurostat definition
• Asylum seekers included• Criterion : staying 1 year in the country
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Themes in the Cubes
Demographic data
Data on education
Data on labor and social security
Data on dwellings and buildings
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Demographic data
Usual residence (statistical sector – municipality - …) Locality Sex Age Legal marital status Country place of birth Country of citizenship Year of arrival in the country Previous place of usual residence Variables on households and family nucleus
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Data on education
Educational attainment Diploma Field of study Place of study (address)
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Data on labor and social security
Location of place of work Current activity status Occupation Branch of economic activity Status in employment Full / part time (classes in %) Additional information on the status: Worker / clerk,
public / private sector, … Type of employment program Home working / seasonal work Type of temporary unemployment
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Data on dwellings and buildings (1)
Tenure status of households Housing arrangements Type of living quarters Occupancy status of conventional dwellings Type of ownership Number of occupants Useful floor space Number of rooms Density standard Bathing facilities Central heating Number of dwellings in a building Period of construction
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Data on dwellings and buildings (2)
Year last modification Detached, semi-detached, terraced Built area Area of the parcel Number of garages Cadastral nature Rights of the owner Number of floors Coordinates (geographical location) of the building
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Additional value of the new Census (compared to 2001)
Lower cost Lower burden Higher frequency of the census and short term
availability after the reference date Availability of longitudinal data Relational data : different possibilities of coupling More applications with modern technologies: e.g. use
of geographical data, calculation of indicators More accurate data and more detail
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Dissemination of the census
CENSUS DB
Eurostat HUB
Cubesmore vars and detail
DB of cubes
Other datae.g. surveys
microdata
Other member
statesEurostat
cubes
applications
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Timing
Milestone 1 end of 2012: database of results with all variables
Milestone 2 end of 2013: all Eurostat cubes are ready (with the 2 population figures)
Other national requirements, applications, dissemination
