System for Web Access to Results of the Population Census in the Republic of Belarus

2. The population
census in the
Republic of
Belarus took
place on
October 14-24,
2009

3. The Law of the Republic
of Belarus as of July 13,
2006
‘On the population
census’ is the legal
framework to perform
collection and
processing of personal
data as well as
distribution of the
census results

4. Computation of the census
zoning
The following registers were
presented in E-form:
The register of residential buildings that
comprises 4,3 mil. dwelling houses;
The list of 23,5 thous. rural settlements.

5. The System’s objectives:
Provide complete automation of data input
process and increase the quality of the
information
Reduce the number of employees involved
Reduce the time needed to edit the data due to
the use of the census forms in E-form

6. Processing of the population
census results:
Stage I Personal data input
Stage II Generation of the population
census database
Stage III
Forming the repository of the
output regulation charts and
the aggregated data
warehouse
Stage IV Distribution of the census
summary information

7. Personal data input:
Registration of
the census
portfolios
submitted
Scanning of the
census forms
Preliminary
processing and
recognition of
marks and symbols
Verification and
correction of the
marks and symbols
recognized

8. Personal data input:
Automated coding and
logical control of
personal data
Editing of personal data
Coding of respondents’
responses on their
occupation and type of
economic activity
Loading of personal data
to the census database

9. The population census database is a
unique information resource
9,504 thous.
people
3,873 thous.
households
2,691 thous.
families
3,477 thous.
dwelling houses
The database contains the
complete data about the
following:

10. Distribution of the census summary
information: approaches applied
Statistical
digests and
bulletins
Output
regulation charts
Thematic maps
presented as
cartograms and
diagrammatic maps

13. Business Intelligence technologies helped to
specify the following:
Territorial distribution of the population
Demographic characteristics
Educational attainment of the population
Socio-economic characteristics
Ethnic composition and the languages used
Migration characteristics
Households’ characteristics
Living conditions of the population

14. Business Intelligence technologies helped:
To reduce the time needed to form the
output regulation charts
To receive up-to-date information for filling
in bulletins and data books
To generate data for their further integration
with the GIS database
To present the information for users’ non-
regulation queries without specialized IT
support

15. Distribution of the census
summary information:
approaches applied
Major issue:
lack of access to the
summary information
to the extent
required

16. General
architecture
of the system
Free access to the census results via Internet
Коммерческие банки
Data extraction, transformation and loading
Level of data sources
Administering
Tools:
Aggregated database of
free access
- Consolidation of the census summary information and data of
socio-demographic statistics
- Maintenance of reference data
- Setting and execution of calculation algorithms
- Dashboard designer
- OLAP queries designer
Uniform client access
OLAP queries Information dashboards
The census
aggregated
database
Data of socio-
demographic statistics

17. Prognoz Platform
• Allows loading
data from
several sources
• Business
Intelligence
toolkit
• Provides a
license for an
unlimited
number of
users

20. System of Web access to results of the
population census in the Republic of Belarus,
based on the Prognoz Platform:
On-the-spot extraction of data by the
selected criteria
Execution of the required groupings
and group operations (results,
addition, etc.)
Generation of graphs and charts
Generation of thematic maps in the
interactive mode

21. Queries to be formed via the System:
Population:
 Territory
 District type (urban or rural)
 Sex
 Age
 Marital status
 Country of birth
 Citizenship
 Nationality
 Linguistic characteristics

22. Queries to be formed via the System:
Population:
 Education
 Sources of subsistence
 Economic activity
 Occupation
 Type of economic activity
 Migration characteristics
 Number of children born (for women)

23. Queries to be formed via the System:
Households:
 Territory
 District type (urban or rural)
 Number of members in the household
 Household type
 Number of children in the household
(depending on a child’s age)
 Number of economically active people, the
employed, the unemployed and dependants in
the household
 Living conditions in the household

24. Queries to be formed via the System:
Dwellings:
 Territory
 District type (urban or rural)
 Dwelling type
 House building period
 The house’s outside walls material
 Total floor space
 Conveniences available

25. Development of the BI system based on
the Prognoz Platform
Representation of
up-to-date data of
demographic
statistics in the
form of
tables, charts and
cartograms