Technology, outsourcing and innovations

The 2014 UNECE publication on practices in the 2010 round of population and housing censuses noted that developments in technology were changing the way censuses were being conducted. Such developments included scanning technologies to replace manual data capture, the use of digital maps and geographical information system (GIS) technologies to supersede traditional census cartography, and the use of the internet to provide respondents with an opportunity to submit their census information online. For many of the countries that responded to the UNECE survey in respect of this topic, these technologies were used for the first time in the census in the 2010 round, while for others they represented a consolidation of existing practices.

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