However, the latest intercensal population growth rate (1.7 per cent) suggests a significant slowdown.

• Review of the draft handbook on intercensal household demographic and social survey methods;

The manual discusses and presents applications of census survival methods, methods utilizing intercensal deaths, and methods based on information on the survivorship of parents and siblings.

(f) Further requested further work to identify instruments that could be used to ensure accurate and reliable measurement of population change during the intercensal periods.

In a number of countries, the long forms of censuses are being replaced with surveys that are conducted separately, but linked to the census, during the intercensal period.

The manual presents census survival methods, methods utilizing intercensal deaths, estimations of adult deaths derived from the survivorship of parents, and estimations derived from the survivorship of siblings.

The manual discusses and presents applications of census survival methods, methods utilizing intercensal deaths, and methods based on information on the survivorship of parents and siblings.

In the previous intercensal periods, the population increased from 5,661,801 in 1980 by an annual average rate of 3.1 per cent during 1969-1980 to 7,759,161 with an average growth rate of 2.7 per cent from 1980 to 1990.

Intercensal rates of growth indicate that the demographic weight of most departments has decreased, as their population grew at rates below the national average, and even lower than 1 per cent, as in the case of the departments of León (0.5 per cent), Chontales (0.6 per cent), Granada and Chinandega (0.8 per cent).