Census Links
- International Statistics Institute
- IPUMS
- Space Time Research
- United Nations Statistics Division
Census

DRS census data capture techniques enable governments to undertake large paper based censuses within affordable budgets and with results released much quicker than traditional methods. DRS can assist with the following types of census:
- agricultural censuses
- national housing censuses
- population censuses
- industrial / commercial censuses
From the very earliest planning stages of a census project and selection of the most appropriate technologies, through to project implementation, document scanning of enumeration/census forms, data processing and finally the export of the data to your census analysis package, DRS has the experience and skills to guide you through the process.
DRS is constantly seeking to develop new innovations and better ways to help with census projects. From recent customer feedback, DRS has developed their new GPS (Global Positioning system) device to improve accuracy in field data collection.
You really can be sure you are in safe hands as we can offer the benefit of experience learned from our growing portfolio of national census projects, and more than 20 national population census projects around the world including:
- Australia census 1996
- Zambia census 2000
- Bangladesh census 2000
- Tanzania census 2002
- Cameroon census 2003
- Nigeria census 2006
- Sudan pilot census 2007
- Ethiopia census 2007
- Malawi census 2008
- Sudan census 2008
DRS world beating PhotoScribe® PS900 series scanners are suited to high speed high volume census data capture and can electronically capture up to 10,500 completed census forms of tick-box, hand-print or any other type of census data every hour.
