Samoa - Population and Housing Census 1991

Start	End	Cycle
1991-11-05	1991-11-12	N/A

Start	End	Cycle
1991-10-01	1991-11-30	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
The main training courses for the enumerators and supervisors occurred during October 1991. However, prior to that time, in service training had been provided to key staff of the department of statistics and to the regional co-ordinators, who were to play an important part in the training programme.
Census fieldwork was performed by school teachers.

Other essential tasks included the design of the questionnaires and the census processing system. Some important developments had occured since 1986, leading to a need for modifications in data collection or processing. Thus while consistency between the 1991 and earlier censuses was important, it was equally vital that improvements be made and proper field tests carried out in time. Among the changes to the questionnaire were included a reintroduction of a question on literacy and a more intensive approach to collecting data on economic activity. This included and additional question to enable responses to be classified to the revised skill based International Classification of Occupations (ISCO 1988) and greater probing on the activities of womendescribed as housewives, in the belief that in earlier censuses may had erroneously been excluded from labour force. In addition, the census was designed to cover housing characteristics, the first time since 1981.
Two sets of questionnaires were used in the census:

1) A household questionnaire which was used to collect information on all household members (usual residents), the household, and the dwelling.
2) A housing questionnaire gives information about the building occupied by the household and some details on the household occupying the building

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Samoa Bureau of Statistics	SBS	Government Ministry
Education Ministry	MESC	Government Ministry

To supervise the field activities of school teachers, the services of the School Inspectors were made available. Director of Education served as the Chief Supervisor