Organization: 

The Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel

Brief description: 

The Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel explains the key uses of the census data on their website providing many examples and saying that the population and housing census has five main objectives:
  Enumeration of the population and households in the country.
  Acquisition of demographic information used for calculating population estimates.
  Data collection and production of information for government ministries and local authorities, for budgeting purposes. 
  Collection of socio-economic information on a large sample of people in the population, which makes it possible to acquire data and information on small, unique groups in the population. 
  Production of information which serves bodies, organizations and various other elements in the fields of education, the economy, business, research, etc.

Results/impact: 

The site explains to everyone why census is important and hopefully improves attitudes towards data collection for census.

Difficulties/lessons learned: 

NA

Attachments: 

NA

Links: 

http://www.cbs.gov.il/census/census/pnimi_sub_page_e.html?id_topic=1&id_subtopic=5

Frequency: 

NA

 

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