Census

DRS census data capture techniques enable governments to undertake large paper based national population censuses, agricultural censuses and other censuses within affordable budgets and with results released much quicker than traditional methods.

From the very earliest planning stages of a census project and selection of the most appropriate technologies, through to project implementation, document scanning of enumeration/census forms, data processing and finally the export of the data to your census analysis package, DRS has the experience and skills to guide you through the process.

You really can be sure you are in safe hands as we can offer the benefit of experience learned from our growing portfolio of national census projects, and more than 20 national population census projects around the world including:

Australia census 1996
Zambia census 2000
Bangladesh census 2000
Tanzania census 2002
Cameroon census 2003
Nigeria census 2006
Sudan pilot census 2007
Ethiopia census 2007

DRS world beating PhotoScribe® PS900 series scanners are suited to high speed high volume census data capture and can electronically capture up to 10,500 completed census forms of tick-box, hand-print or any other type of census data every hour.

DRS is a member of the International Statistics Institute.