Examples of using Register-based countries in English and their translations into Russian
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Not including register-based countries.
In total 32 of the 52 countries collected this information, including three register-based countries.
It is also noteworthy that no register-based countries collect information on citizenship acquisition.
Only in seven countries they were not considered economically active of which three were register-based countries. .
Iceland and Norway are the only register-based countries that do so.
Of the register-based countries only Austria reported collecting information on additional housing characteristics.
Lack of such metadata is particularly prevalent among register-based countries, of which only a third(Austria, Finland and Iceland) did so.
In terms of whether countries collected information on emigration,five countries said they had no register-based countries.
However, three of the nine register-based countries(Austria, Finland and Iceland) reported using this method.
This proportion was even lower(just over a third) for EEA countries, reflecting the fact that only 2 out of the 9 register-based countries reported such consultation.
Only Belgium of the EU register-based countries reported that they fully adopted the recommended classification.
From table 8 we learn that in most countries with a traditional Census no access is given whereas in most register-based countries access is given.
Only eight countries(including two register-based countries-- Denmark and the Netherlands) reported that they do not provide such services.
The Work Session requested that the UNECE Steering Group on Censuses to explore the possibility of working towards recommendations for the implementation of the CES Recommendations in register-based countries.
It is evident that in all the nine register-based countries there are sufficient administrative data to provide information on this topic.
But fewer countries(just 22) had referred to the United Nations companion Handbook on Census Management for Population and Housing Censuses-- not surprisingly perhaps, none of the nine register-based countries had felt a need to do so.
Of the nine register-based countries, six did not collect any information on parental birthplace, while the remaining three did.
Interestingly of these, three Denmark, Finland andSweden are register-based countries within the EEA and a fourth, Malta, is also in the EEA.
Interestingly, two register-based countries(Belgium and Norway) also reported this level of geography as the lowest that is recognised in the dissemination of data-- even though such areas are not specifically created for the collection of the information.
More countries(13) adopted criterion(c) above, including seven of the nine register-based countries, and the majority of these(12) were countries in the European Economic Area EEA.
Only Belgium and Denmark(of the register-based countries), Liechtenstein(of the combined methodology countries), and Kyrgyzstan, France and the United States(traditional) chose not to, but note that the latter two countries adopt census methodologies that no longer not fit neatly into the"traditional" model.
Similar to country or place of birth, all countries except one collected this information, including all register-based countries. It would seem that this would be the type of information available via administrative files.
In the 2010 census round three register-based countries(Belgium, Iceland and the Netherlands) decided each to add one or two variables from the Labour Force Survey(LFS) that were missing in their registers.
In each group most of countries have asked about the place of usual residence 1 year prior to the census, 20out of 33 countries(about 61 per cent) that undertook traditional census,8 out of 9 wholly register-based countries and 6 out of the 10 countries that adopted a combined census methodology.
Use of the latter was more prevalent among the register-based countries over half of whom reported this as the primary method of dissemination.
Registers and administrative sources(12 countries): all nine register-based countries and three countries with a combined census Germany, Poland and Switzerland.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, none of the nine wholly register-based countries reported that they were able to collect information on ethnicity, and only one of them collected information on religion Finland.
Slightly more countries(26), including seven of the register-based countries, applied a definition based on the address of the local unit for which the employed person was working during census week.
For most countries, the national boundaries of the country of birth were recorded according to the time of the census(including four register-based countries); nine countries said at the time of the birth(four were register-based); and three countries used other definitions of national boundaries of which one was register-based. .
All of these would be used in the collection of information from field operations,so it is not surprising that no register-based country reported such usage.
