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Census Characteristics	1999
Title	Population Census of the Republic of Belarus
Census Agency	Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus
Population	All inhabitants permanently residing in each housing unit are to be enumerated, including those persons who at the census moment were temporarily absent. Temporarily present citizens of the Republic of Belarus who reside in other places are to be only listed in the check census list. Children born after and persons who died before the census moment are not to be included in the census documents (10.045.237 inhabitants)
Universe	100%
De jure or de facto	De facto
Enumeration unit	Household
Census day	16 February 1999
Field work period	16-23 February
Enumeration forms used	There are three documents. Form 2P contains directions for completing the list of those usually (permanently) living in the dwelling and their housing conditions. Form 3N III. Directions for recording answers to questions of the enumeration questionnaire. Form 4E directions for recording answers to questions of the enumeration questionnaire for those temporarily present on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
Type of field work	Visiting all dwellings where households live or could live and recording data in census questionnaires. Face to face interview
Respondent	Natural person to be interviewed in the process of enumeration
Coverage	100%
Microdata sample characteristics	1999
Sample microdata source	Population census
Sample design	Every 10-th households after a random start
Sample unit	Households
Sample fraction	10%
Sample fraction (private households)	-
Sample fraction (institutional households)	-
Sample size (person records)	990.706
Sample size (private households)	-
Sample size (institutional households)	-
Sample weights	Self weighting (expansion factor=10)
Units identified	1999
Dwellings	Yes
Vacant units	No
Households	Yes
Individuals	Yes
Group quarters	Not institutions
Settled/unsettled Population	Yes Homeless
Special populations	No
Unit definitions	1999
Dwellings	The dwelling is a separate and independent place of residence. Regular dwellings (accommodations) are defined as housing units typical of the Republic (detached houses, flats, hostels) intended for private households to live in.
Households	The household is defined as a person, family or a group of families or persons permanently living in a given dwelling and having a common budget, with blood relationship between them not being compulsory.
Institutional population	-
Group quarters	Institutions (collective quarters) are places of residence intended for collective households, i.e. for groups of people cohabiting in the same housing unit (specialized institution), sharing common meals, but not having individual budgets or common consumer espenses, observing common rules and usualy not being related.
Unsettled population	Homeless (persons without a special place of residence)