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head of the dwelling or in his/her absence, a person of 18 and over who is a
usual resident of the dwelling and who knows the information of its residents.
The data collection is planned to take place in March 2020.
Regarding data collection forms, two population and housing
questionnaires are used: a short form, consisting of around 30 questions; and
a long form, designed for a probabilistic sample of around 4 million inhabited
private dwellings, with approximately 75 questions, which includes the entire
short form.
Additionally, the 2020 Census will provide statistics on the characteristics
of the blocks’ surroundings in localities of 5 thousand and more inhabitants of
the country (Urban Surroundings Questionnaire), as well as the infrastructure
and socioeconomic characteristics of the localities with less than 5 thousand
inhabitants (Locality Questionnaire). The Social Assistance Housing Census
(CAAS, for its acronym in Spanish) is also planned, which collects the
characteristics of the user population, the people who work in those
institutions, the buildings and the services they provide.
In order to obtain a higher response rate, a multimodal approach will be
implemented, having as a main method the personal interview assisted by a
MD, the self-enumeration via the Internet or the telephone assisted interview,
available upon request or in case of non-response after several visits of the
interviewer, as well as the use of printed questionnaires in places where the
mobile device cannot be used.

3. Use of computer tools in the different stages of the Census 2020
The conceptual design contemplates the activities for the identification of
information needs, which serve to determine and define the conceptual
framework to which the data will be referred, the results presentation schemes,
the questionnaires for its collection and the validation criteria for the revision
and debugging of inconsistencies.
In order to support the conceptual design tasks, two web applications were
developed, the first one called “Public Consultation to Users of the 2020
Census”, which aimed to facilitate the task of identifying information needs of
users, allowing them to expose systemically and simply the objectives and
importance of their requirement; meanwhile, at the managerial level, it allowed
to follow up on each of the requests. The second application is the
“Conceptual Infrastructure of Census and Counts”, whose objective is to be a
repository of the conceptual frameworks for population and housing censuses,
allowing the recording and updating of conceptual and operational
information on the variables that have been collected in the census
questionnaires, as well as reviewing changes over time.
During the operational design, the procedures and technical schemes for
the data collection activities are established, as well as the administrative,

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