The Census and Survey Processing System, CSPro, is a software package used by hundreds of organizations for entering, editing, tabulating, and disseminating census and survey data. CSPro is designed to be as user-friendly as possible, yet powerful enough to handle the most complex applications. It can be used by a wide range of people, from non-technical staff assistants to senior demographers and programmers.

CSPro supports data collection on Android devices (phones and tablets). The CSEntry Android app works in collaboration with the Windows-based desktop version of CSPro.

Using CSWeb, CSPro supports data synchronization from Android or Windows devices to a server.

CSPro is used in over 160 countries. Leading statistical agencies in the developing world use CSPro to process census data. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), colleges and universities, hospitals, and private sector groups also use CSPro for survey work. CSPro can be used to process censuses and surveys of any size and has been used to process the census data for both Djibouti (less than one million people) and Indonesia (more than 235 million). Examples of uses of CSPro include:

• Censuses (population and housing; agriculture; and economic)
• Demographic and labor force surveys
• Household income and expenditure surveys
• Major international projects such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)

CSPro is a software package designed for Microsoft Windows, combining the features of two previous DOS-based software packages, IMPS and ISSA. Unlike the previous text-based systems, CSPro provides a visual approach to the creation and manipulation of data and reduces the need for most users to have advanced programming skills. CSPro has great flexibility, however, and its functionality can be exploited by skilled users. CSPro has been actively used worldwide since 2000.

CSPro is developed and supported by the U.S. Census Bureau. Funding for the development and maintenance of CSPro is primarily provided by U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD). The Census Bureau provides training and technical assistance on all aspects of data processing to national statistical offices around the world with support from GHSD and other donors.