The Handbook on Population and Housing Census Editing, Revision 1 will also
need to be updated, taking into account changes in population and housing census
topics and their classifications as contained in the Principles and Recommendations
for Population and Housing Censuses: the 2020 Round, Revision 3. In addition,
Measuring the Economically Active in Population Censuses: A Handbook may require
major revision to reflect recent the decisions of the International Conference of
Labour Statisticians (new concepts, definitions, classifications). On the basis of
information on national experiences collected by the workshops that the Division
conducted on planning and implementing post-enumeration surveys and on census
data evaluations based on demographic techniques, it is anticipated that the Division
will develop a set of guidelines on census evaluation (that includes planning and
implementing the post-enumeration surveys to evaluate census coverage, on the one
hand, and the evaluation of census data, on the other). Three areas that would benefit
from technical guidelines that are based on a review of national practices are census