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METHODS OF TAKING A CENSUS.

THE CANVASSER OR THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE,

WHAT WILL BE DONE IN HONG KONG.

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In France “la' popilation dé fait) | census is then limited by the in consists of all persons present intelligence and literary capacity of a district at a given time and this the population readily to grasp the is distinguished from "a popula-meaning and requirements of the fion de droit consisting of all per-blink forms issued and to all them sons usually resident in the district up properly. It is obvious that in inclusive of those temporarily ab. Hong Kong the literary capacity is sent and exclusive of those only wanting in a large proportion of temporarily present. We distin. the population, and that this guish these two methods of enum method. cannot therefore be eration by calling the one de facto ployed in its entirety. and the other de jure. In Hong Kong as well as in all other parts of the British Empire (except Cannday it is the de facto popula tion that is enumerated. The great advantage in, this method is ita simplicity and in Hong Kong any other method would be impossible, n's there would be no means of computing the number temporarily absent. The chief objections to the de facto method are that under it visitors are included while tem. porary abscutces are excluded so that some filaces have their popula

It is hoped that tion unduly inflated and others un- duly diminished. To minimise good enumerators will be obtained these objections it is usual to fix in Hong Kong and care is being the time of the census at an hour taken to train them in their duties. The chief diandvantage of the of the day and at a season of the year at which the displacement of canvasser method by itself lies in the population is at a minimum. the fact that the enumeration, The date in Hong Kong was fixed owing to the time taken in obtain. with special reference to Chinning the desired information, is not

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The Canvasser Method. The chief advantage of the can- vasser method is that difficulties due to ignorance or illiteracy of those enumerated are to a large extent obviated. But for this method to be successful the enum erators themselves must not only be fully intelligent and have a clear, knowledge of what is required and how it should be recorded but must also have the ability to obtain readily the desired information by means of questions well chosen and carefully asked.

synchronous for the whole country

and thus it becomes difficult to

avoid omissions and duplications On Saturday night, the 7th of duo to changes of abode and also March; it is possible that the Euro

errors due to fortgetfulness of the pean population of the N.T. facts as these existed on the census (especially in the neighbourhood of

day when the enumerator does not Fanling) may be above its normalcall until some days after that date. figure but this is unavoidable. A In 1811 and 1021 the week-end date has many, advan method was employed · as regards Lages over one in the middle of the the New Territories and in enum- work and the fact that the 7th oferating the Floating Fopulation, March is the final day of the "An- one month being taken in

in the

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nual Races will probably ́kerp all instance and four de first

but the keenest of golfers to their second, usual habitat.

On Hong Kong Island, in Kow. took loon and New Kowloon the House- Considerate discussion place recently in the United King-holder Method was mainly used in dom regarding the advisability, of 1911 and 1921 and an attempt was having the census date in the mid-made to fill-in the gaps left by the dle of the week on this occasion illiterate by having the forms filled in view of the phenomenal growth in by the enumerators when col- of the week-end babit" in Eng lecting them.

In some countries, notably in land. Sunday, April 20, has been

Indin and Ceylon where the prob chosen as the Census Day and on additional question has been insert-lem is similar to that which faces. ed in the Census Form "Usual us in Hong Kong, special expedi Residence." The United Kingdom ents have been adopted to reduce Census of 1931 is likely to combine, therefore, the features of both de jure, and de facto enumera-

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as mich as possible the objection- able featrues of the Canvasser Method. A preliminary canvass is made followed by a final revision on the Census Night.

There are two distinct methods of

On Census Night. collecting the information required from a census which have been de- It is proposed to follow this signated respectively, (1) the method in Hong Kong Commene Householder, Method, and (2) the ing immediately after the China Canvasser Method. Thus generally throughout the British Empire the occupier of each dwelling" is the person held primarily responsible for furnishing a written record of the desired particulars relative to

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New Year holidays (February 17 and 18) the enumerators will go round their enumeration districts and at once write in, on the census forms, the particulars obtained by questioning the people. The enum

all the inmates of the dwelling erator also prepares a summary in occupied by him. In the United a special book prepared for this States of America" however, and in purpose. By checking the summary Ireland, Canada, India (except in book and the schedules as written the case of Europeans and of Ins in by the enumerators during the dians of high rank) and Ceylon the fortnight that clapses before the original entries are made by the census night, it should be possible. enumerator as the result of in- to see that no building or portion quiries instituted by him. In Hong of a building is omitted. On the Kong, as in India, it is proposed to census night, or rather, early on employ a combination of the two the morning after, the enumerator. 'methods.

will, again, go round his enumera- tion district and check up the porti The Householder Method.

culars previously entered by bits, The Householder Method has striking out any that may have left great advantages. The liability to in the interval and adding parti error is much diminished and as all 'culars of any new-comers to his statements rost on the household district.

or's own authority, erroneous cn, The enumeration districts or tries through hurry or carelessness blocks have been made, inueh in taking down answers canpot smaller than in the past. The accur. Secondly, the time of the Report of 1991 states that 203 coumerator 'is saved and the cost, enumerators were employed on the of taking the consus in thorchy Island of Hong Kong," and "2 in much reduced. The labour of writ Kowloon Peninsula. It in nimed "Ulf out the particulate a divintaj tine une-roameraber ur

among the whole community and arsa should not be required to ob- such division makes it possible for tain the particulars for more than the particulars to be synchronous 1,000 persons and for the aren below Bonham Road and Chine for all parts of the country. The Road, from Kennedy Town to chiel objection to the householder Fender Street over 450 enumer method is that the accuracy of the tors will be employed

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