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

I. THE COMPREHENSIVE REWIEV OF THE DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING - 1. The prepatory activities of the census

Meeting of the Steering Committee concerning the experimental registration and the micro-census of 1968 The notification of the data requirements on the side of the National Planning Office Meeting held in the Urbanistic Society: "Science of settlements and the population census" Coordination with the Ministry of Labour as to the data requirements and the definition of the respective notions Discussions with the Planning Office, the Ministry of Labour and the experts of the Economic Division of the Central Statistical Office concerning several notions and classifications to be used in the census Conference with the Regional Adjustment Division of the Ministry of Building and Town Development concerning the establishment of the census districts, the drawing up of groundmaps, problems referring to downtown and outskirts' areas Energetic Division of the Ministry of Heavy Industry: data concerning the heating, hotwater supply and cooking The sending of the draft questionaries to the divisions of the Central Statistical Office Answers, remarks, propositions as to the previous item The sending of the questionaries to the ministries Remarks of the Central Statistical Office as to the instructions to be given to the census-takers and to the list of the individual occupations Experimental registrations: Experimental registration connected with the micro-census of 1968 Experimental registrations performed in contiguous territories (communities, towns) 21 February 1967 25 February 1967 9 March 1967 14 March 1967 1 April 1967 13 July 1968 30 September 1968 December 1968 January 1969 3 April 1969 6 September 1969 January 1968 April-May 1969 b/ THE CONSIDERATION OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE CMEA AND THE UNO When fixing the programme of the population census, the recommendations of the international agencies have been largely accounted for. The statisticians of the CMEA member states held consultations concerning census problems as early as 1965. On the basis of experiences obtained with the full-scale censuses performed in the sixties, a large-scale programme has been planned by the Statistical Standing Committee of the CMEA as to the methodological problems to be considered in the period 1963-1966. Between the 25^ June and the 2

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C' July 1964 the working group of the statistical experts had a meeting and discussed there the topics elaborated by the delegation of the People's Republic of Poland under the following title: "Exchange of experience on the organization, programme and results of data processing of the censuses to be performed in the CMEA member states. " On the purpose to the elaboration of the recommendations, three working groups have been formed dealing with different topics: population census, registration of the dwellings as well as the organization and mechanization of the data processing. The material prepared was published, on behalf of the session of the Statistical Standing th. Committee of the CMEA held in Moscow on the 26 of February 1965, under the title: "Methodo8