UNFPA Egypt - International Consultancy, Preparation to conduct the 2028 Population and Housing Census

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        The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) of Egypt is preparing to conduct the 2028 Population and Housing Census using a Combined Census Methodology (Base Register + Full Field Enumeration). This approach aligns with UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (Revision 4). This approach combines administrative register data with field enumeration and can leverage both registers and field operations as it provides the opportunity to assess the accuracy and completeness of the available administrative data sources. In this design, administrative registers provide the population baseline and select core topics, while full field enumeration verifies data on the doorstep and collects characteristics unavailable in registers. Also, it will serve as a foundational milestone toward a fully register-based census model in future rounds. The overall purpose of this assignment is to strengthen CAPMAS’s institutional and technical capacity to assess, clean, link, and utilize administrative registers for the 2028 Combined Census and the subsequent transition to register-based statistics. This technical assistance aims to establish the statistical infrastructure within CAPMAS required to transform raw administrative files into high-quality statistical records, build an integrated secondary Statistical Population Register (SPR), and implement microdata confidentiality safeguards.

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        Scope of Work: Transitioning to a register-based census is especially challenging for populous countries like Egypt due to the volume of data that must be integrated. Additionally, some administrative registers are often decentralized across regional and local levels rather than centralized nationally, significantly increasing the number of data sources to process and further complicating the transition. As part of census modernization, and as a strategic secondary consideration, integration of Mobile Phone Data for Population Statistics is another important consideration. Mobile phone data—specifically anonymized and aggregated Call Detail Records (CDRs) and positioning data—offers a high-coverage source for producing frequent, timely, and dynamic population statistics. Within the scope of this consultancy, mobile phone data will be evaluated at a conceptual and methodology-design level as a supplementary “signs of life” tool to validate register population counts, while primary execution remains focused on administrative registers. While CAPMAS holds deep and long-standing expertise in traditional census operations and information management, a register-based statistical system requires additional statistical expertise, particularly in the linkage and matching of data in registers, record linkage, quality assessment and statistical control. To ensure international compliance and rigorous standards, this technical assistance is grounded in the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (Revision 4), the UNSD Handbook on Register-Based Population and Housing Censuses, and the UNECE Guidelines for Assessing the Quality of Administrative Sources for Use in Censuses. The administrative records in Egypt are primarily managed by various ministries and register-holders, CAPMAS will build an internal, secondary Statistical Population Register (SPR). This consultancy will enable CAPMAS technical teams to assess register readiness, execute administrative-to-statistical data transformations, build an integrated SPR backbone, and implement statistical data protection.

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          Objectives of the Assignment:

          • Preconditions Assessment: Evaluate and benchmark Egypt’s register ecosystem against international preconditions for register-based and hybrid transitions, highlighting legal, technical, and institutional gaps.
          • Multi-Stage Data Quality Assessment: Train and enable CAPMAS to identify and evaluate administrative data sources across Source, Input, Process, and Output quality stages.
          • Data Transformation and Matching: Establish specialized capacity in deterministic and probabilistic record linkage, de-duplication, conflict resolution, and "Signs of Life" (SOL) activity filtering.
          • SPR Structural Construction: Formulate the architectural blueprint and operational workflow to link individuals, addresses, and enterprises into an integrated secondary Statistical Population Register.
          • Data Governance & Safeguards: Establish statistical disclosure control, microdata security, and inter-institutional governance frameworks.
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          Comprehensive Scope of Work & Technical Modules:

          • Module 1: Readiness and Preconditions for Register Transitions – This module establishes the foundational non-technical and institutional parameters required to secure a reliable, continuous, and lawful supply of administrative data.
            • Legal Framework & Political Support: Review CAPMAS's legal authority under Law No. 35 of 1960 and relevant modern statistics acts to receive, process, merge, and store microdata from administrative owners strictly for statistical purposes, ensuring confidentiality. Also, a strong political commitment and formalized collaboration between administrative authorities and the national statistical office are essential for a successful transition to register-based statistics.
            • Administrative Routines Assessment: Assess the current data collection routines, capacities and quality guidelines of partner agencies to ensure a continuous and dependable supply of high-quality data.
            • Unified Identifier Evaluation: Assess the penetration, stability, and error rates of the 14-digit National ID across external registers.
            • Inter-Institutional Frameworks: Draft templates for Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), data sharing protocols, Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between the holders of administrative registers (Administrative Control, MoHP, MoSS, etc) and CAPMAS defining transmission frequencies, format standards, metadata sharing, and dispute resolution.
            • Public Trust and Data Ethics: Establish transparency frameworks, data ethics assessments, and public communications regarding data anonymization and confidentiality.
            • Other relevant points to be considered: Data provision: Where appropriate, and with necessary safeguards in place, explore opportunities for collaboration with the private sector to access data that can support census operations. This might involve accessing through data-sharing agreements, private sector data such as mobile location data or utility usage records, which can be valuable for understanding population mobility or identifying signs of life.
            • Resolving Data Overlaps and Conflicts: A combined census often draws on multiple data sources that may contain overlapping or conflicting variables. In such cases, decision-makers must evaluate and select the most appropriate source to use. Furthermore, register-based data and field data frequently yield inconsistent results, even for identical topics. To ensure coherence, weighting techniques can be applied to align the datasets, while field data can serve as a benchmark to evaluate the accuracy and coverage of register counts.