Selection of districts for data entry sites in Aceh household census

Data entry is an important activity in household census. In 2010 Aceh population census, there is only one data entry site, Banda Aceh as a provincial capital of Aceh province. Among options for future household census, is to have another site of data entry for efficiency. This paper examined the selection of districts in Aceh province as an optimum data entry sites using P-Median linear programming to minimize total data processing cost. Volume of questionnaires, delivery cost, distance from districts to data entry site, operational cost, consumer price index and price of scanner, are variables to be considered in P-Median. The conclusions reached in this paper strongly suggest that 2 districts as data entry sites is more efficient than only Banda Aceh as data entry sites.