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

I. THE COMPREHENSIVE REWIEV OF THE DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING - 10. The budget and the financial settlement of the census of 1970

10. The budget and the financial settlement of the census of 1970 It came now at first time to the preliminary granting of the budget of the census in a lot, the yearly breakdown of which had to be cared for later separately. The budget comprised all costs of the preparatory activities (including the experimental registration), the costs of the data processing and publication, from the beginning to the conclusion of the census. The total costs of the census cannot, however, be exhibited, since the costs of the electronic data processing were borne by the Central Statistical Office, and covered by other budgetary fund. The machine pool in question performed different statistical data processing simultaneously: consequently, no final information as to the total outlays of the census are available. The outlays (calculated without the costs of the electronic data processing) are known, however, included the costs of the data recording as well as the input of computer hours. Since the latter was not converted to forint value, the present chapter deals with the original expenditure forecast of the census only (including the recording of the data). On the purposes to the census of 1970, an amount was granted by the Ministry of Finance. Which might be used for survey, data processing and publication. The original breakdown is the following: % survey 27,7 processing 10,5 publication 0,6 central costs: wages 36,0 material expenditures 23, 0 directorates of the Central Statistical Office 2, 2 100, 0 Summing up the main features of the financial system as connected with the execution of the census, it has to be mentioned that in 1970 the following method and practice have been applied in the budget and the cost control: 1. Preliminary estimates were made. 2. Propositions were made at the government level as to the cost calculations. 3. The real coverages of the execution of the census were secured in the yearly budgets. 4. A real cost analysis was planned and partly carried out after the conclusion of the census. 90