Census and Surveys

The Tuvalu Central Statistics Division (CSD) is currently undergoing an innovative experiment project funded by the World Bank and the Pacific Community (SPC) which is the first in the Pacific region called the Statistical Population Register (SPR)

The SPR project aims to link and utilize census data with administrative data from various data sources, including the Immigration Department, Health Department, and Marine Department. By leveraging these administrative data, the Tuvalu CSD intends to reduce or eliminate the need for traditional census population and housing survey. This approach will enable us to determine the overall Population of Tuvalu using administrative data that is already available.

As part of the SPR, the CSD is planning to conduct a National Population Count that will offer a snapshot of Tuvalu’s current population, that will validate and update the existing population count from the 2022 Census and integrate with administrative data to provide an updated statistic of Tuvalu’s population.

The National Population Count plans to recruit officers from each Kaupule office on a temporary basis, to train here on Funafuti as Trainers for the fieldwork, they will then train fieldworkers from their respective islands to conduct the enumeration of their islands on a specific week. During the fieldwork, the Trainers will then supervise the activities on the ground.

These are dates allocated for each activity;

The number of fieldworkers needed from each island is detailed in the table below;

Note that these numbers exclude the number of Trainers that will also supervise the fieldwork.