International Consultancy for 2028 Census Register-Based Preparation

About the role

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is seeking an international consultant to support Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) in preparing the 2028 Population and Housing Census using a combined register‑based and field enumeration methodology. The consultant will strengthen CAPMAS’s capacity to assess, clean, link, and use administrative registers and to build an integrated Statistical Population Register (SPR).

Key responsibilities

• Evaluate Egypt’s register ecosystem against international pre‑conditions and identify legal, technical and institutional gaps.
• Design and deliver training on multi‑stage data quality assessment, deterministic and probabilistic record linkage, de‑duplication and conflict resolution.
• Develop the architectural blueprint and operational workflow for an integrated secondary Statistical Population Register.
• Establish statistical disclosure control, micro‑data security measures and inter‑institutional governance frameworks.

Required profile

• Proven experience in register‑based or hybrid census projects and statistical data integration.
• Strong knowledge of UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses and related UN statistical guidelines.
• Ability to train national statistical staff and to work closely with multiple government ministries and data owners.

Required skills

• Deterministic and probabilistic record linkage
• Data de‑duplication and conflict resolution
• Statistical disclosure control
• Micro‑data security and confidentiality safeguards