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While national censuses consumes governmental resources, FCSA
conducts continuous researches to validate and practice new approaches that
shall decrease the urge of conducting field surveys and control
enumeration/census operation costs.

2. Methodology
The methodology behind the project presented in this paper is developed
on the utilization of water and electricity meters data as a source for
calculating household density and farm density which is considered as a
different methodology from the traditional population density methods
however has proven to be a feasible source to derive household information
(Gajowniczek and T.Ząbkowski, 2015). Moreover, in 2013 FCSA combined
water and electricity meters data with the output of the 2013 family framework
project, to validate the use of smart meters dataset as a source of household
information which may be considered as an alternative to the household
census after applying the necessary data processing methodology.
The Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) has an established
meter data management system which was the main data source for this
project. The meter database included details on each meter type, location,
activity, owner name, owner nationality, unit land use, serial, etc.
In collaboration with FEWA, the meters data for 2 years – 2013 and 2017-
was derived from FEWA meter data management system and processed, and
analysed in order to extract the required information.
The process performed on the meters dataset aimed to:
- Include only meters that are active / in use. (Table 2: Summary of
number of meters found in each emirate before processing and
filtering)
- For each household unit, only one utility meter shall be counted;
either water meter or electricity meter) (Figure 2: Meters Density
Distribution)
- Identify where the unit usage is residential or farm.
o For residential units: Identify whether the owner of the unit
is UAE national or an expat.
The project database and implementation leveraged geographic
information systems (GIS) tools and techniques. The diagram below (Figure 1:
Project methodology and implementation steps) briefly elaborates the
methodology and implementation steps. They were set after iterations of
process reviewing and results auditing to validate data assumptions and
ensure the maintenance of accurate results.

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