1970 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Information on the data collection and processing (1977)

I. THE COMPREHENSIVE REWIEV OF THE DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING - 2. Regional preparation

2. Regional preparation The law-decree no. 18. of the Presidential Council (1969) held the chairman of the Executive Committee of the respective councils responsible for the preparation and execution of the census. The management was committed generally to the charge of the leaders of technical branches (the secretaries of the Executive Committee), while on the country, district and town level it was entrusted to the secretaries of the Executive Committees and, in acting as deputies, to the leaders of the administrative and organizational departmens. Duties connected with the regional preparatory work were the following: a/ THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE STREET-NAMES AND NUMBERS One of the most important tasks of the council prior to the census was the survey and ordering of the streets and street-numbers. The large-scale development (the construction of new housing estates and dwellings, demolishment and changes of the names) occurred since the census performed in 1960, highly motivated the supervision in the sense that the new streets names should be given and the houses get numbered, or the numbers be changed. In May 1968 the Department of Council Agencies organized within the Council of Ministers - in accordance with the Department of Census - has given instructions to the regional agencies for the execution of the duties, in fixing its term for the end of May 1969. b/ THE ACQUISITION AND PREPARATION OF MAPS In order to design the census districts as well as to prevent double registrations or omissions it was expedient to have, on adequate scale, geographical maps to be made of both the outskirts' and downtown areas, reflecting the real situation prior to the census (respecting the name of the street, street-number, new buildings etc.) Maps of the scale 1:5 000 for the downtown districts of the towns and larger communities, while in other'cases of the scale 1:10 000 resp. 1 : 25 000 were the most suitable for this purpose. The Census Department has performed a full-scale survey (December 1968 - January 1969), as to what extent the respective settlements are supplied with geographical maps. The evaluation of the data pointed to the insufficiency of the supply both in towns and communities. A considerable part of the maps was obsolete and unusable; a fact which necessitated central dispositions. The Census Department of the Central Statistical Office, in agreement with the Department of Council Agencies of the Council of Ministers undertook the supply of the towns and commu21