RGPH 2003 Census Manual: Instructions for the Principal Supervisor
Summary: Field manual for Haiti's Fourth General Population and Housing Census (RGPH 2003), covering instructions for the principal supervisor. It sets out the census organization, the definitions and conventions enumerators and supervisors were to apply, and the procedures for the stage it governs. Together with the other manuals in the set it documents how the 2003 count was actually conducted, which is what any later use of its figures has to be read against.
Key Findings
- The manual instructs principal supervisors in the manual processing stage for the Fourth General Population and Housing Census questionnaires.
- It defines manual processing as the detailed examination of completed questionnaires before data entry and exploitation.
- The operation is organized around verification, critique and codification, including physical checks, detection and correction of inconsistencies or omissions, and coding work.
- Principal supervisors are responsible for managing work rooms, monitoring team progress, supporting codification supervisors and maintaining communication with the unit head.
- Supervision procedures include quality control of agents' work, tactful private correction of supervisors, activity reports and follow-up on problems and solutions.
- The manual also assigns the principal supervisor responsibility for personnel movement, absences, weekly and monthly reporting, materials inventory and transmission records.
How to cite
Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics (IHSI), RGPH 2003 Census Manual: Instructions for the Principal Supervisor, https://ihsi.gouv.ht/\documents\methodologie\Manuel_Instruc_Supervir_Principal(RGPH2003).pdf