The National Register Of Buildings And Dwellings In Switzerland And Its Role In Future Housing Census Fritz Gebhard, Federal Statistical Office Registers in Statistics, Helsinki May 2007
The Topics What Is It About? The Register Of Buildings And Dwellings New Orientation Of The Housing Census www.housing-stat.ch 2
What population and housing census (not only) in Switzerland is about? 3
What register-based population and housing census in Switzerland is about 197895433 RBD 197895433 009 197895433 003 197895433 004 197895433 006 197895433 001 197895433 008 Gäbelbachstr. 20! Name Müller Vorname Verena Adresse Gäbelbachstr. 20 EGID EWID 197895433 001 RR 4
Basic elements of the population and housing census Register of Buildings and Dwellings without habitation buildings with habitation EGID unoccupied dwelling dwellings occupied dwelling EGID households collective household persons private household EGID + EWID Register of residents 5
The Topics What Is It About? The Register Of Buildings And Dwellings New Orientation Of The Housing Census www.housing-stat.ch 6
Uses of the RBD for statistical purposes Structural data on houses and dwellings Identification of household structures Geocoding of statistical surveys National Register of Buildings and Dwellings Basic data for other surveys 7
Measures and techniques to ensure uptodate data in hight quality! Harmonising definitions and terms! Real-time entries and online availability! Continuous quality control and documentation! Partnership and cooperation 8
Real-time entries and online availability internet internet web server RBD user access authorisations administration of changes interfaces quality control www.housing-stat.ch applikation server RBD 9
Continuous quality control and documentation err online entries data imports validity rules del aut OK ref National RBD rejected data data check completeness rules plausibility rules aut que OK online online error error list list Reaction of the system in case of violation of the quality rules quality status ref incorrect data; rejected by the system. del incorrect information; deleted before saving/import. err incorrect/missing information; to be corrected. aut incorrect information; automatically corrected. que inprobable information; to be verified. 10
The Topics What Is It About? The Register Of Buildings And Dwellings New Orientation Of The Housing Census www.housing-stat.ch 11
Data sources and processes of the register-based housing census Supplementary register data Data collection (construction authorities) Data inventory RBD Data exchange surveying/post Geocoding of the houses Check and correction of data Substitution and correction processes Preparation of statistical results Reporting and customer consulting Harmonising register of residents Register based survey Residents data with EGID/EWID Individual data for DWH Random sampling survey (households) Sampling data of households 12
Conclusions! Using the RBD, extensive questioning no longer necessary! High standard of quality assurance in RBD essential! Additional data sources for housing census indispenable! Statistical uses of RBD beyond housing census 13
Remarks, Questions? www.housing-stat.ch 14
Thank You! www.housing-stat.ch 15