Economic Census of Cambodia 2011

Method of the Census enumeration

1. The Census enumeration was carried out through a method in which an enumerator visited each establishment within a certain enumeration area, interviewed the owner or manager of the establishment or his/her substitute who was entitled to represent the establishment, and filled in the Census Form.
2. In addition to this, a self-enumeration method was applied to the establishment, which requested to fill in the form by themselves.
3. In case that the enumeration did not finish due to reasons of establishments until
   20th March 2011, "Special Survey Team" carried out the enumeration.

Enumerator
4,030 enumerators were employed temporarily for the Census. Each enumerator was assigned to one or two more villages, or one enumeration area which had been demarcated to accomplish their duties which were described in Enumerator's Manual.

Supervisor
484 supervisors were employed temporarily for the Census. Each supervisor was assigned several enumerators to accomplish their duties which were described in Supervisor's Manual.

Training oflocal staff, supervisors and enumerators

1. The training of provincial staff was done twice in the NIS: the first one was for two days on 14 and 15 December 2010; the second one was for five days from
   17 to 21 January 2011.
2. The training of district and commune chiefs was done for a half day on 18 or 25 February 2011 in each province.
3. The training of supervisors and enumerators was done for five days between 14 and 25 February 2011 in each province.
4. Core Staff of NIS and the trainers of trainees (hereinafter, it refer to as TOT), which were assigned from among the staff ofNIS were charged with the training of the above-mentioned seminars.
5. TOTs carried out the duties as ROs and AROs at the stage of the Census-conducting.

Submission of documents to the superior organizations

1. The enumerators submitted the documents including the Census Forms which were scrutinized completely to their supervisor no later than April 1st (Friday) 2011.
2. Finally, the Provincial Census Officers submitted the documents to NIS Census officer by the prescribed date of April 2011 after checking them.

Mapping
Village Boundary Maps were drawn on the basis of Village Maps of 2008 Population Census by province in order to instruct survey areas to enumerators. Villages with a large number of establishments were divided into Enumeration Areas. The Enumeration Area Maps were drawn in order to instruct the area of the Enumeration Area to the enumerator.

19. Pretest and pilot survey

1. Pretest
   a) The pretest was carried out in around 15 Villages in Phnom Penh city as of 15
   December 2009 for two weeks.
   b) The pretest aimed to test form-designing, enumeration methods, instructions to be included in the enumerators' manual and so on, and the results were utilized for making appropriate plans for the 2011 Economic Census.

Pilot survey
a) The survey was carried out as of 1st March 2010 (one year before the Census date) during one month of March 2010 in around 200 Villages/Enumeration Areas selected on the basis of the sampling theory from among all provinces.
b) In addition to this, all large-scaled establishments with 100 employees and more
were surveyed.
c) The pilot survey aimed:
(a) to test the final draft of the Census Form and other documents;
(b) to test work procedures of every stage of enumerators, supervisors, local government offices and NIS;
(c) to test tabulation methods to be adopted, and
(d) to gain statistical data on large-scaled enterprises and others. d) The results were released in the October 2010.

20. Post-census stage's business

1. Post Enumeration Survey was carried out in July 2011 in order to analyze coverage errors and content errors of the Census.
2. The Inter-censal Economic Survey is planned to be carried out in 2014 on the basis of the database constructed on the Census data in order to provide updated statistics on economic activities of establishments and enterprises of the country.