engleski

Automated Coding in the Census '91 in Croatia

Introducing automatic coding techniques requires writing very large software programs, and can rarely be undertaken. In the case of a census, the cost of such a project is generally lower than the cost of manual coding. Moreover, automatic coding can be easily implemented for some simple variables. Statistics Croatia introduced these techniques in the last census for numerous variables, even complex ones, like occupation. In this article, the authors describe the used algorithm, which consists of several steps. The paper reports the results of the application of this algorithm to the Census "91 in terms of the quality and efficiency of each step.

census data; automated coding; systematic sampling

nije evidentirano