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The Republic of  China

Population  
      Last update:
      12/15/04
Contact person Chen Cheau Hwa
Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interior
Phone: 886-2-23565359
Fax: 886-2-23976861
Internet e-mail: moi9072@moi.gov.tw
 
 
    Dissemination formats Hardcopy
    (   ) News release
(   ) Weekly    ( x ) monthly    (   ) quarterly bulletin
(   ) Other
  Electronic
    ( x ) On-line country bulletin board or database
(   ) Diskette    (   ) CD ROM    (   ) Other

The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness

Coverage characteristics The ROC household registration program is designed to collate and to supply demographic information and officially to recognize personal status and relations. Registrations required by the Household Registration Law are as follows:
1. Personal Identification Registration: Including registration of births, deaths, declaration of deaths, legitimization of children, adoptions, termination of adoptions, marriages, divorces, and custody arrangements.
2. Migration Registration: This category includes registration of immigration, emigration, and changes in addresses.

3. Initial household registrations.
Periodicity Monthly 
Timeliness Within 15days after the end of the reference month

Access by the Public

Advance dissemination of release calendar  http://www.moi.gov.tw/stat/english/erelease/calendar.htm
Simultaneous release to all interested parties  

Integrity

Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including ...
Confidentiality of individual responses
The " Household Registration and Conscription Information System" provided the data of Population to the Government and to the public.
Departments of Population and Statistics, Ministry of the Interior are responsible for compiling the data of Population.
Identification of internal government access to data before release The Director of Department of Statistics, MOI, provides comments, technical and interpretative, on the data.
Identification of ministerial commentary on the occasion of statistical releases No ministerial commentary is released with these data. DGBAS provides its own analytical commentary with these data releases.
Provision of information about revision and advance notice of major changes in methodology The data are exact figures when released.

Quality

Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics A brief description of the methodology and sources is published in the " Monthly Bulletin of Interior Statistics " and " Taiwan-Fukien Demographic Fact Book, ROC " .
Dissemination of ... that support statistical cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness Monthly historical data, which are subscribers to " Monthly Bulletin of Interior Statistics", are also available on MOI Internet website.
(http://www.moi.gov.tw/stat/english/estatistics/em2.htm )
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