The data entry and processing sector achievements

  The data entry and processing sector has been constituted in 29/3/2009, by the administrative order No. 77/2009 where the core working cadres was selected in the three stages (scanning, general auditing and coding), appropriate with the importance of this sector to success the census operation by using the modern experience of data entry for the census forms through the scanner and programs of Intelligent Character Recognition ICR.

The achievements from working sector:

1.    The plans and timing schedules of IT sectors courses had been drawn and the number of trained cadres for each training course through workshops that has been held with Egyptian side at the beginning of the preparation for census.

2.    The number of servers and computers were calculated with identify their specifications and requirements of network and other accessories to suit the time period required for the extraction of census results.

3.    Network diagram has been designed for the work stages shows a link between stages within the sector and the transmission of data from one stage to another.

4.     Schemes of sector’s building have been drawn to suit and flow of work between phases and have been coordinated with the administrative sector to put partitions and provision of building with requirements of electrical power, desktop furniture and chairs to accommodate the number of workers.

5.    Cadres of the sector participated in the pre-enumeration experience that had been carried out and reflected positively on the understanding of the forms and nature of the errors obtained when fill out it, which may be the reason for not recognize of Intelligent Character Recognition program to its content.

6.    Developing knowledge through the Egyptian experience of census and workshops held in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund to see the experiences of other countries by using the modern approach of intelligent entry of forms, have been adopted of ICR technology for the data census entry

7.    The specifications of the modern scanners Fujitsu fi-5900C was identified and follow-up of the contract processing of provision twenty scanners for census.

8.     Participating in the contract processing which occurred between the United Nations Population Fund and the provider company for programs of Intelligent Character Recognition ICR (GET Company) in the interest of Iraqi population census on 150 licenses from the program distributed on dingle for each fifteen licenses.

9.    Ten employees within IT sectors of COSIT have been trained on Oracle 10g program in preparation of Egypt sessions for stages of (scanner, general auditing, Coding, processing and output results).

10.     Four employees of sector’s cadres had been trained on SQL Server for preparing them to train in Egypt in the automated coding stage.

11.     Put the pilot census plan in respect of the sector for the requirements and timing.

12.      It has been coordination with Egyptian side with regard to curricula and period of courses that will be held in the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics.

13.     Workshops that established in Egypt related to the two stages scanner and auditing has been completed and follow by coding stage which start the work with sector at the end of its workshop in Cairo.

14.     ICR program has been installed on the server and client to test it, and templates have been designed for printed forms.

15.     Conduct training course for the program on forms (forms scanner, monitoring of scanner quality, intelligent character recognition ICR, Auditing and save data in the database.  

16.     Instructions and rules to fill out forms has been set up to suit ICR program depending on what was conclusion on registers of the pre-test census that had been entry and processed through the scanner session implemented on a sample from Baghdad.        

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