Department of Censuses, Surveys and Statistical Methods

​​​​​​​Departme​nt Mandate :

  • Design and implement the statistical procedures and methods, censuses and surveys, including population censuses, housing, establishments and household surveys.​

  • ​​Provide the government agencies with the technical support, through the formulation of the necessary statistical surveys requested by those agencies.

  • Design samples, develop the sampling frameworks, estimation methods, and monitoring and evaluate the errors arising from samples, and statistics quality control.

  • Carry out descriptive analysis, and statistical inference which includes estimation.

  • Design questionnaires, and table of outputs.

  • Establish sampling frameworks, data purification and scheduling methods.

  • ​​​Establish data of censuses and statistical surveys, and prepare them for publication, in cooperation with the concerned administrative units, and the competent authorities.​