{"doc_desc":{"title":"2008 Population and Housing Census","idno":"DDI_WBG_MWI_2008_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS","producers":[{"name":"Minnesota Population Center","abbreviation":"MPC","affiliation":"University of Minnesota","role":"Integration Harmonization Documentation"}],"prod_date":"2016-04-25","version_statement":{"version":"- Version 02 (May 2018). This version is identical to version 6.4 (April 2016), except for the DDI Document ID and ID Number which were updated.\nDocumentation of census data and harmonized variables as found in IPUMS-International. The International Household Survey Network (IHSN) contracted IPUMS International for generating DDI and Dublin Core-compliant metadata related to population and housing census datasets from developing countries. The objective was to provide countries with detailed metadata in a format compatible with the DDI standard used by most of these countries, with a view to guarantee the preservation of the data and metadata, and the publishing of metadata.\n\nThe intellectual rights (including copyright) for the data and metadata in IPUMS are retained by the countries under a Memorandum of Understanding with the contributing countries. IPUMS-International has distribution rights to the metadata and data. The XML documents generated by this process are viewed as a distribution of the metadata.\n        \nFields edited by the World Bank are: DDI ID and study ID to match World Bank study naming convention, as well as DDI Document Version and Version Description to reflect changes included in version 6.4.\n\nPrevious version documented in the World Bank Microdata Library:\n- v6.3 (August 2014)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"WBG_MWI_2008_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS","title":"Population and Housing Census 2008 - IPUMS Subset","alt_title":"PHC 2008 (IPUMS Harmonized Subset)"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"National Statistical Office","affiliation":""},{"name":"Minnesota Population Center","affiliation":"University of Minnesota"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(c) Copyright 2008, National Statistical Office and Minnesota Population Center"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"National Statistical Office","affiliation":"","email":"","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Population and Housing Census [hh\/popcen]"},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 6.4. The datasets contain selected variables from the original census microdata plus harmonized variables from the IPUMS-International database.\n\nIn v6.4, the research team continued to carry out improvements to geography, providing harmonized geographic units for the second administrative level for roughly half the countries. More information about IPUMS geography variables is available <a href='https:\/\/international.ipums.org\/international\/geography_variables.shtml'>here<\/a>. Also, approximately 100 integrated variables were renamed. Affected variables with their current and previous names are listed <a href='https:\/\/international.ipums.org\/international\/resources\/misc_docs\/renamed_variables_sept2015.pdf'>here<\/a>. Geography variable also underwent wholesale renaming.\n\nIn this update, IPUMS added 19 new samples for Armenia, Austria, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Mozambique, Paraguay, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and Spain. Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Paraguay were newly added countries to IPUMS. Samples for other countries extend pre-existing series for those countries.","version_date":"2016-04-25"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Technical Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Geography: Global Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Technical Person Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Demographic Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Appliances, Mechanicals, Other Amenities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Dwelling Characteristics Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Constructed Family Interrelationship Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Fertility and Mortality Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Education Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Work Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Disability Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Migration Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Constructed Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Geography: M-Z Variables -- HOUSEHOLD","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Other Person Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Work: Industry Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""},{"topic":"Person Imputation Flags Variables -- PERSON","vocab":"IPUMS","uri":""}],"abstract":"IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.\n\nThe IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.","time_periods":[{"start":"2008-06-01","end":"2008-06-21","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2008-06-01","end":"2008-06-21","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Malawi","abbreviation":"MWI"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage","geog_unit":"District","analysis_unit":"Household\n\nUNITS IDENTIFIED:\n- Dwellings: No\n- Vacant units: No\n- Households: Yes\n- Individuals: Yes\n- Group quarters: Yes\n- Special populations: Yes (Homeless)\n\nUNIT DESCRIPTIONS:\n- Dwellings: A dwelling unit may be defined as any structure; permanent, semi permanent or traditional where people live and sleep. It may be a hut, house, stores with a sleeping room or rooms at the back or sides, a shelter of reeds\/straw such as those used by fishermen, or any other structure where people sleep.\n- Households: A household consists of one or more persons, related or unrelated, who live together and make common provision for food. They regularly take all their food from the same pot, and\/or share the same grain store (nkhokwe) or pool their incomes for the purpose of purchasing food. Persons in a household may live in one or more dwelling units.\n- Group quarters: Collective household refers to a large group of people who live together and sharing common facilities such as kitchen, toilet, lounge, and dormitories. In such situation the residents may not have complete independent quarters that qualify as housing units as their living quarters during the census period.","universe":"All persons present in Malawi at the time of census. These include foreigners with acknowledged status as refugees, and citizens of Malawi who at the time of census are absent temporarily (less than 6 months). However, diplomatic personnel of the foreign diplomatic and consular representative offices, foreign military personnel and their family members, and the members and representatives of the international organizations and communities located in Malawi are not enumerated.","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]"},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"MICRODATA SOURCE: National Statistical Office\n\nSAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by the Minnesota Population Center\n\nSAMPLE UNIT: Household\n\nSAMPLE FRACTION: 10%\n\nSAMPLE SIZE (person records): 1,343,078","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"Census questionnaire containing questions on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population, dwelling unit characteristics, emigration, and maternal and general deaths","coll_situation":"De facto and de jure, CENSUS DAY: Unspecified day during June 1st - June 21st, 2008, FIELD WORK PERIOD: June 1st - June 21st, 2008","act_min":"Direct enumeration","weight":"Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10)."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"IPUMS-International distributes integrated microdata of individuals and households only by agreement of collaborating national statistical offices and under the strictest of confidence. Before data may be distributed to an individual researcher, an electronic license agreement must be signed and approved.\n\nTo gain access to the data, a researcher must agree to the following:\n\n(1) Implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to census microdata. Under IPUMS-International agreements with collaborating agencies, redistribution of the data to third parties is prohibited.\n\n(2) Use the microdata for the exclusive purposes of scholarly research and education. Researchers must explicitly agree to not use microdata acquired for any commercial or income-generating venture.\n\n(3) Maintain the confidentiality of persons, households, and other entities. Any attempt to ascertain the identity of persons or households from the microdata is prohibited. Alleging that a person or household has been identified is also prohibited.\n\n(4) Report all publications based on these data to IPUMS-International, which will in turn pass the information on to the relevant national statistical agencies.\n\nOnce a project is approved, a password is issued and data may be acquired through the Internet. Penalties for violating the license include: revocation of the license, recall of all microdata acquired, filing of a motion of censure to the appropriate professional organizations, and civil prosecution under the relevant national or international statutes.\n\nThese safeguards mirror the principles from the Joint ECE\/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality. Employees of the Minnesota Population Center who work with the census microdata to produce the harmonized database also sign agreements to respect the confidentiality of the data.\n\nIPUMS-International works with each country's statistical office to minimize the risk of disclosure of respondent information. The details of the confidentiality protections vary across countries, but in all cases, names and detailed geographic information are suppressed and top-codes are imposed on variables such as income that might identify specific persons. In addition, IPUMS-International uses a variety of technical procedures to enhance confidentiality protection. These include the following:\n\n(1) Swapping an undisclosed fraction of records from one administrative district to another to make positive identification of individuals impossible.\n\n(2) Randomizing the placement of households within districts to disguise the order in which individuals were enumerated or the data processed.\n\n(3) Aggregating codes of sensitive characteristics (e.g., grouping together very small ethnic categories)\n\n(4) Top- and bottom-coding continuous variables to prevent identification of extreme cases.\n\nThe safety record for public-use census microdata is apparently perfect. In almost four decades of use, there has not been a single verified breach of statistical confidentiality. The measures implemented by the IPUMS-International are designed to extend this record.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"IPUMS International","affiliation":"Minnesota Population Center","email":"","uri":"http:\/\/international.ipums.org"}],"cit_req":"Minnesota Population Center. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International: Version 6.4 [dataset]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2015. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.18128\/D020.V6.4.\n\nResearchers should also acknowledge the statistical agency that originally produced the data:\nMalawi, National Statistical Office, 2008 Population and Housing Census\n\nThe licensing agreement for use of IPUMS-International data requires that users supply IPUMS-International with the title and full citation for any publications, research reports, or educational materials making use of the data or documentation.\n\nCopies of such materials are also gratefully received at ipums@umn.edu.\n\nPrinted matter should be sent to:\nIPUMS-International\nMinnesota Population Center\nUniversity of Minnesota\n50 Willey Hall\n225 19th Avenue South\nMinneapolis, MN 55455","conditions":"An adapted version of the dataset, harmonized for international comparability, is available from IPUMS-International (https:\/\/international.ipums.org\/international\/) under the following conditions:\n\nIPUMS-International distributes integrated microdata of individuals and households only by agreement of collaborating national statistical offices and under the strictest of confidence. Before data may be distributed to an individual researcher, an electronic license agreement must be signed and approved.  To gain access to the data, a researcher must agree to the following:\n\n(1) Implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to census microdata. Under IPUMS-International agreements with collaborating agencies, redistribution of the data to third parties is prohibited.\n\n(2) Use the microdata for the exclusive purposes of scholarly research and education. Researchers must explicitly agree to not use microdata acquired for any commercial or income-generating venture.\n\n(3) Maintain the confidentiality of persons, households, and other entities. Any attempt to ascertain the identity of persons or households from the microdata is prohibited. Alleging that a person or household has been identified is also prohibited.\n\n(4) Report all publications based on these data to IPUMS-International, which will in turn pass the information on to the relevant national statistical agencies.\n\nOnce a project is approved, a password is issued and data may be acquired through the Internet. Penalties for violating the license include: revocation of the license, recall of all microdata acquired, filing of a motion of censure to the appropriate professional organizations, and civil prosecution under the relevant national or international statutes.\n\nThese safeguards mirror the principles from the Joint ECE\/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality. Employees of the Minnesota Population Center who work with the census microdata to produce the harmonized database also sign agreements to respect the confidentiality of the data.","disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}},"schematype":"survey"}