Abu Dhabi started their three-day preparation for the national project of "Abu Dhabi Census 2011" which is regarded as the largest project to count the population of the emirate and identify their characteristics accurately.

Six thousand enumerators, controllers and administrators have delivered envelopes, containing census questions, spaces to answer and how to complete the questionnaire, to the doors of residential units such as villas, apartments, etc. The envelopes also contain some awareness brochures about the census, Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The distribution process will continue till Monday as the enumerators will start their fieldwork and interview households for the actual data collection next Tuesday, according to a press release by the Centre.

Hotels and Hospitals Reflecting the Centre’s interest in the accuracy of the census results, enumerators have started visiting hotels and hospitals all over the emirate to deliver census paper questionnaires to count the patients and residents who might be in any of these organizations next Tuesday, when the population census will start. Excluding those individuals from the count would affect the accuracy of the collected data and consequently the released figures. Therefore, SCAD has distributed questionnaires to both residents of hospitals and hotels.

Geographical Maps The Census Centres, through which Statistics Centre manages the census fieldwork, received today the geographical maps of all the regions of the Emirate showing the distribution of population in those regions, so that the enumerators would be able to accomplish their work accurately and quickly.

Release of Results Statistics Centre -Abu Dhabi plans to announce the preliminary results of Abu Dhabi Census 2011on the 25th of December 2011 and to release the final results by the end of May 2012.

Coding Team Statistics Centre will conduct a theoretical training for the census coding team Sunday through Tuesday, entitled "Introduction to Enumeration, International Coding Classification, the Importance of Coding and the Coding system adopted for Abu Dhabi Census 2011," followed by a practical training on coding on Wednesday and Thursday.

Interview Times SCAD indicated that enumerators will be working mainly from 4-9 pm Sundays through Thursdays from the 4- 24 October 2011, and they may also work morning shifts or during weekends. Enumerators will be based in 37 centres all over the emirate (Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and the Western Region).

Mechanism of Action and Communication with the Enumerator SCAD also added that the census mechanism of action is that the enumerator visits households to collect data electronically using "iPads" that are directly connected to the operations room at the main headquarters of the centre. If the household head or the responsible adult refuses to complete the electronic questionnaire, the enumerator completes the paper questionnaire and later inputs the data into the iPad in the census centre where he/she works and sends it to the headquarters of Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi. The household head can also fill in the paper questionnaire delivered to his residential unit before Tuesday by himself and hands it to the enumerator later on.

If people are not at home during the enumerator’s first visit, he/she leaves a door hanger with his/her contact number and it is quite important that the household head calls back the enumerator to schedule another visit.

Individual Data Confidentiality Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi would like to assure everybody that the Centre protects the privacy of the personal data of everyone in the Emirate as the confidentiality of individual data is guaranteed by Law No. 7 issued for the year 2008 by H.H. Head of State on the establishment of the Centre. The Centre pledges not to reveal any unit record data as the whole process of census is about useful aggregate data.

Enumerators as well as SCAD staff back at the Abu Dhabi and Al Ain offices have signed a legal document - an undertaking - that all census information provided is deemed confidential. The signing of this non-disclosure form is something many other countries ask their enumerators and office staff to sign as well.

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