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Measuring Population and Housing: Practices of UNECE Countries in the 2020 Round of Censuses
This publication reviews the practices followed by member countries of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) – spanning 56 countries across Europe, Central Asia and North America – in conducting their population and housing censuses of the 2020 round. The aim is to compare the approaches adopted by countries and to assess the extent of their alignment with the Conference of European Statisticians (CES) Recommendations for the 2020 Censuses of Population and Housing.
UNECE
May 2026
Acronyms and abbreviations
API
Application programming interface
CES
Conference of European Statisticians
CIS-Stat
Interstate Statistical Committee for the Commonwealth of Independent States
Eurostat
Statistical Office of the European Union
EU
European Union
GIS
Geographic information system
GPS
Global Positioning System
GSBPM
Generic Statistical Business Process Model
ICF
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
ILO
International Labour Organization
ISIC
International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities
ISCED
International Standard Classification of Education
ISCO
International Standard Classification of Occupations
IT
Information technology
NACM)
National mapping and cadastral agency
NSO
National statistical office
PES
Post-enumeration survey
TV
Television
UNECE
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNSD
United Nations Statistics Division
WG-SS
Washington Group Short Set on Functioning