Lao Population and Housing Census 2015

Published by: Open Development Laos

This dataset contains detailed and disaggregated information on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the country’s population and households at village, district and provincial level. Those thematic information are general demographic characteristics, migration, literacy and education, health and disabilities, ethnicity and religion, economic activities, poverty and inequality, and living conditions.

The 4th Population and Housing Census (PHC) 2015 was conducted from March 1-7, 2015 according to Prime Ministerial Decree No.89/PM, dated September 11, 2013. The PHC has been conducted in the country every 10 years since 1985.

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Field	Value
Dataset topic category	Access to education Adult literacy Ethnic minorities and indigenous people Migration Population and censuses Poverty reduction Public health Social development Sustainable Development Goals
Language	English Lao
Use limitations	Government data
Dataset reference date	February 11, 2021
Temporal extent's start date	January 1, 2015
Temporal extent's end date	January 1, 2015
GeoNames	Lao People's Democratic Republic
West bounding coordinates	-296104.6875
East bounding coordinates	1240110080.0
South bounding coordinates	-13.942138889198304
North bounding coordinates	1374621312.0
Spatial Reference System	WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) (CRS:84)
Completeness	Completed.
Process Step	The original data was downloaded from http://www.decide.la, and visualized in GeoServer.
Lineage	Lao DECIDE (http://www.decide.la)
Responsible party	Lao Statistics Bureau Luang Prabang Road, Vientiane, Lao PDR Telephone: 856 (0) 21 214740, 856 (0) 21 242023 E-mail: nscp@etllao.com nscit@etllao.com Contact Data Service: 856-21-264322 E-mail: nscit@etllao.com
Update Frequency	not planned
License	No license given
Copyright	Yes
Version	1.0
Keywords	Lao Population Census,census 2015,general demographic characteristic,literacy and education,Health and disabilities,poverty and inequality,indigenous people
Date uploaded	February 12, 2021, 16:55 (UTC)
Date modified	September 23, 2021, 03:05 (UTC)

Lao Population and Housing Census 2015

Published by: Open Development Laos

Data Resources (17)

Lao population and housing census 2015

Lao population and housing census 2015

Population density (Persons/km2)

Main water source

Main type of energy source for cooking

Percentage of population of ethno-linguistic category

Percentage of female-headed households

Percentage of households having electricity

Number of households with disabled persons

Percentage of households with farmland

Percentage of literate population

Sex ratio of literate population

Population with main activity unemployed

Percentage of economically active population

Incidence of poverty

Sex ratio

Main type of toilet

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