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20 January, 2011
UNSD Calendar of EventsUNSD, in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat, is organizing a Regional Workshop for countries in the region on census editing in the context of the 2010 World Programme for Population and Housing Censuses.
The purpose of the workshop is to develop capacities of CARICOM national statistical offices (NSOs) with the techniques and procedures used in editing population and housing census data. The Workshop will cover elements of edit specifications and implementing the specifications in CSPro. The Workshop will also offer the possibility to the participants to present and discuss the experience of their countries on different aspects of census editing. The workshop will be very hands-on, using the common core census questionnaire shared by many CARICOM member countries and sample data from some countries. Participants will be trained well enough to implement standard census edits at the workshop and be able to customize them after they return home. The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in cooperation with the
General Statistical Office of Vietnam is organizing a Workshop on Statistics
of International Trade in Services for the South-East Asian countries.
The workshop is organized within the framework of the UN/DESA Development
Account project for the strengthening of the statistical capacity of
countries in South East Asia. The United Nations Statistics
Division and the National Bureau of Statistics of China are organizing
the International Workshop on Social Statistics, scheduled for 22-26
November 2010 in Beijing, China. This workshop is being held as part
of the social statistics programme of the United Nations Statistics
Division with the purpose of enhancing the capacity of countries to
collect, disseminate and use quality statistics on time use and on
violence against women. This workshop is also intended to provide an
opportunity to review and discuss new national initiatives and data
collection tools for the improvement of these two areas of social statistics. UNSD, in collaboration with the
Jordan Department of Statistics and the Arab Institute for Training and
Research in Statistics, is organizing a Workshop on census evaluation
in the context of the 2010 World Programme for Population and Housing
Censuses. The third International Seminar on Early Warning and Business Cycle
Indicators will take place from 17 to 19 November 2010 in Moscow, Russian
Federation. This is the final seminar organized by United Nations Statistics
Division/DESA and Eurostat in cooperation with the hosts of the three
seminars, Statistics Canada (Ottawa, May 2009), Statistics Netherlands
(Scheveningen, December 2009) and the Federal State Statistics Service
of the Russian Federation. These seminars are held in response to the
call made in the fortieth Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission
in 2009 for swift and coordinated statistical initiatives by countries
and international organizations in response to the global economic and
financial crisis. UNSD is organizing a National
CensusInfo Training in collaboration with the National Statistical Office,
Malawi. This training is intended to develop the national census technical
teams’ capacities to adapt CensusInfo as a platform for disseminating
census data. Participants will learn various processes involved in the
adaptation of CensusInfo including preparation of CensusInfo template
and database, standard report and profile templates, language translation
and packaging the software. The sessions also includes hands-on training
on using CensusInfo User Interface and Database Administration applications,
designing and creating templates and databases to house country-specific
census data, learning various data administration utilities including
importing census data to facilitate uploading of data into the CensusInfo
system, and generating relevant tables, graphs, maps, reports and profiles
for reporting purposes.  This seminar is organised by
UNSD/DESA, in collaboration with United Nation Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The seminar is hosted by the
National Statistics and Informatics Institute of Peru. The Workshop, which is organized
by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with
the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), will bring
together representatives from national statistical offices and line ministries
to review recommendations for reporting of MDG data and to establish
strategies for dealing with data discrepancies and data gaps at the national
and international level, particularly for health related MDG indicators.
In addition, the workshop will provide participants with skills needed
to improve the production and dissemination of MDG indicators. UNSD, in collaboration with Statistics Canada is organizing an Expert
Group Meeting on the Revision of the Framework for the Development Environment
Statistics on 8-10 November 2011 in New York. The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is organizing an Expert Group Meeting on Energy Statistics from 2-5 November 2010 in New York. The main purpose of the meeting is to review and endorse the provisional draft of the International Recommendations for Energy Statistics (IRES) prior to its submission to the United Nations Statistical Commission for adoption at its 42nd Session (22-25 February 2011). The Expert Group will review the results of the worldwide consultation on the provisional draft of IRES that took place during the period from July to August 2010 and advise on their incorporation in the final draft. During this meeting a number of issues relevant to the preparation of the Energy Statistics Compilers Manual (ESCM) and to the development of the implementation programme of the revised recommendations will be discussed. The meeting will gather experts from countries and international/regional organizations active in energy statistics. This workshop
on the updated and new recommendations for international merchandise
trade statistics (IMTS) and their implementation in countries of the
Sub-Saharan Africa region is organized by UNSD in cooperation with the
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Participants
will learn about the new and updated recommendations and share their
experiences in the compilation of IMTS and the implementation of the
international recommendations (old and new) on IMTS, also with view on
identifying issues and best practices for inclusion in the updated IMTS
Compilers Manual. On the occasion of the first-ever World Statistics Day - 20 October 2010 – the Statistics Division will launch The World’s Women 2010: Trends and Statistics simultaneously in New York, Shanghai and Bangkok. This publication, in the words of the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon “is intended to contribute to the stocktaking being done to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Beijing Conference. It addresses critical aspects of life: population, families, health, education, work, power and decision-making, violence against women, environment and poverty. It finds that progress in ensuring the equal status of women and men has been made in many areas, including school enrolment, health and economic participation. At the same time, it makes clear that much more needs to be done, in particular to close the gender gap in public life and to prevent many forms of violence to which women are subjected.” The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is organizing a meeting to launch the UNSD/DFID project on "Improving the Collation, Availability and Dissemination of Development indicators, including MDGs" at the UN Gigiri Complex in Nairobi, Kenya, from 18 to 20 October 2010. The Global Forum on Gender Statistics
is being organized by the
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with
the National Statistical Coordination Board of the Philippines. This
Forum, from 11-13 October, will be the third in a series of international
meetings on gender statistics with the purpose of promoting the advancement
of gender statistics among decision makers and all other user groups.
The focus of the 2010 Forum will be on the gender dimensions of health
statistics, including measurement of maternal mortality, causes of death
and disability, and related methodological advances. National practices
in the incorporation of a gender perspective in national statistical
systems and in the measurement of women and men’s
health will be reviewed. The Third Data Managers Meeting will be held in New York, from 6 to 8 October 2010, hosted by the UN Statistics Division. The Meeting will provide an opportunity for data managers from international agencies to update each other on recent developments in data dissemination and identify ways of expanding and improving the UNdata portal further (data.un.org) . The meeting will cover several specific topics, including: data quality processes, SDMX, social networking for the statistical community, and the use of API. The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), is organizing the Regional Seminar on Census Data Dissemination and Spatial Analysis in the context of the 2010 World Programme for Population and Housing Censuses. The United Nations Statistics
Division (UNSD),
in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and
the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is organizing a national
advanced training on CensusInfo in Egypt from 20 to 23 September 2010. The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in cooperation with Kenya
National Bureau of Statistics, is organizing the Regional Seminar on
Census Data Dissemination and Spatial Analysis in the context of the
2010 World Programme for Population and Housing Censuses. The Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) is the main interagency mechanism in the professional field of official statistics, bringing together chief statistical managers from over 35 United Nations system and other international organizations, active in the collection and dissemination of official statistics. The Committee was established in 2002, taking over its key objectives from the former Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) Subcommittee on Statistical Activities, namely to promote coordination, integration and complementarity among the statistical programmes of the international organizations. This five-day intensive
course, organized by the UN Statistics Division in close collaboration
with Statistics South Africa in the context of the UN/DESA Development
Account project for SADC member states, aims at strengthening IT skills
in the National statistical offices as well as providing all SADC member
states with a common understanding of IT related data editing issues
which creates the possibility that the NSOs find common software solutions
in the future. The Malawi National Seminar on Census Data Analysis is scheduled to
be held from 19 to 22 July in Malawi. The main objective of the national
seminar is to provide an opportunity for the staff member of the Malawi
National Statistical Office in collaboration with the University of Malawi
Population Studies Centre, to further collaborate on the analysis of
data from the 2008 census of Malawi on selected topics. The national
seminar will cover the following topics: (i) fertility and nuptiality
from a gender perspective; (ii) fertility indices based on data from
the 2008 census; (iii) measures of nuptiality based on data from the
2008 census: and (iv) and use of the CensusInfo software for data presentation
and dissemination. After the seminar, participants are expected to produce
thematic analytical reports, based on analyses generated during the seminar. The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) and the Statistical Office of the Republic of Korea (Statistics
Korea) in cooperation with the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development
are organizing an International Seminar on Information and Communication
Technology Statistics.
Contact: Ralf Becker, Tel. +1 212 963 4600, e-mail: beckerr@un.org The Workshop "Developing
National Systems of Tourism Statistics: Challenges and Good Practices"
is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration
with the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Interstate Statistical
Committee of the CIS (CISSTAT) and National Bureau of Statistics of the
Republic of Moldova. The Workshop is hosted by the National Bureau of
Statistics of the Republic of Moldova in Chisinau, Moldova between 29
June and 2 July 2010. The United Nations Committee
of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) is an intergovernmental
body providing strategic vision and direction to environmental-economic
accounting and related statistics. The Fifth UNCEEA meeting will discuss
progress made in resolving the issues in the issue list for Volume 1
of the revised System of Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA).
It will also discuss the proposal for a list of issues for Volume 2 in
particular related to the classification of ecosystem services and their
valuation. Papers related to climate change, sustainability and integrated
resources management will also be presented that are the themes of Volume
3 on the applications of the SEEA. Progress in drafting the SEEA-Energy,
the International Recommendations for Energy Statistics and their synergies
will be discussed. The United Nations Statistics
Division, in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics of
China, will organize an "International workshop on Industrial Statistics" from
21 to 23 June 2010 in Dalian, China. The workshop aims to enhance the
capacity of National Statistical Offices of Asian countries in the area
of industrial statistics. This workshop is part of a series of events
organized under the project on strengthening statistical capacity development
in China and other developing countries in Asia funded by the Chinese
Government. It will address specific issues in industrial statistics,
namely: (1) the compilation of the index of industrial production, following
the revision of the International Recommendations for the Index of Industrial
Production; (2) the production of statistics on capacity utilization
for manufacturing units and (3) the conduct of business condition surveys
for manufacturing units. This seminar is organised by
UNSD/DESA, in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat. The purpose
of the seminar is to initiate the formulation of an implementation programme
for the 2008 SNA and supporting economic statistics with the objective
of developing comparable economic statistics for member states in the
Caribbean region as a whole to monitor the integration of their economies.
It is expected that this initiative would lead to a multi-year programme
to move the countries over to the 2008 SNA and to establish a minimum
common data set of annual and high frequency statistics. Seminar
on the implementation of the System of National Accounts 2008 in the
Western Asia Region This
seminar is organised by UNSD/DESA, in collaboration with UNESCWA and
the GCC Secretariat, to develop a programme for the implementation of
the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) for countries in the
ESCWA region. The seminar is hosted by the Sultanate of Oman. Egypt National Seminar on Census
Data Analysis is scheduled to be held from 17 to 19 May in Cairo, Egypt.
The main objective of the seminar is to provide an opportunity for the
staff member of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
(CAPMAS) in collaboration with the Cairo Demographic Center and Cairo
University, to further collaborate on the analysis of data from the 2006
census Egypt on selected topics. The seminar will cover an overview of
calculation of the wealth index; gender analysis; and use of the CensusInfo
software for data presentation and dissemination. After the seminar,
participants are expected to produce thematic analytical reports, based
on analyses generated during the seminar. UNSD, in collaboration with the
UNESCAP, is organizing a Regional Workshop for countries in the region
on census evaluation in the context of the 2010 World Programme for Population
and Housing Censuses. UNSD, in collaboration with the
UN Cartographic Section, is organizing the Second Preparatory Meeting
of the Proposed United Nations Committee on Global Geographic Information
Management. The Conference on Data Quality for International Organizations will
be held immediately after the Q2010 European Conference on Quality in
Official Statistics (Helsinki, 4-6 May 2010) under the auspices of the
Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA). Eurostat
and UNSD are organizing this fourth CCSA conference dedicated entirely
to quality issues, which will be hosted by Statistics Finland. The Joint Task Force on Environmental
Indicators has been established to foster collaboration of national statistical
offices and environmental ministries/agencies in the improvement of environment
statistics. The meeting, organized jointly by the United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe (UNECE) and UNSD, will review the Guidelines on the
Application of Environmental Indicators in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central
Asia. It will discuss the indicators revised on the basis of the conclusions
of the first meeting and will consider further indicators for revision based
on countries’ experience with their application. It will also look into the
possibility to include new indicators to fill in gaps in the coverage of
some of the priority subject areas. April 2010 The United Nations Statistics
Division (UNSD) in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), is organizing a meeting
to launch the UNSD/DFID project on "Improving the Collation, Availability
and Dissemination of Development indicators, including MDGs"; at
the ESCAP Headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, from 29 to 31 March 2010. In response to the decision of the 41st session of the United
Nations Statistical Commission on the issue of the revision of the Human Development
Index (HDI), the UN Statistics Division is organizing a consultative
meeting on 24-25 March 2010 in New York. In its Decision 12, the
Commission has requested the Bureau of the Commission, together with
experts from the regions, to undertake urgent consultations with the
Human Development Report Office on the methodologies and data used in
the proposed revision of the HDI and to take appropriate decisions based
on the consultations. The United Nations Statistics
Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics
of China, will organize an International Workshop on Regional
Products and Income Accounts from 15 to 17 March 2010 in Beijing,
China. The workshop aims to review the current practices of various countries
in regional accounts and propose best practice approaches in compilation
of Gross Regional Product and Income. This workshop is part of a series
of events organized under the project on strengthening statistical capacity
development in China and other developing countries in Asia funded by
the Chinese Government. It will give an overview of the conceptual framework
and different approaches for allocation of national economic activities
to regions and address some measurement issues on the inconsistency between
the national aggregates and the sum of regional data. The workshop will
also offer the opportunity to exchange experiences and discuss the optimal
approach in the calculation of Gross Regional Product and Income.
41st
Session of the UN Statistical Commission The 41st session of the Statistical
Commission is scheduled to be held at United Nations Headquarters, New
York from 23 to 26 February 2010. It will take place in Conference Room
3 in the United Nations Secretariat Building. This UN/DESA workshop on the Methodology and Data Compilation of International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS) aims to strengthen the statistical capacity of the five South East Asian countries Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Timor Leste and Vietnam in the area of IMTS, in particular with respect to data collection and compilation, and the application of the concepts and definitions for IMTS (covering both existing and new or revised recommendations). The workshop is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in cooperation with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN/ESCAP) and the National Statistical Institute of Cambodia which will host this workshop. Countries are expected to develop country specific action plans which will serve as guidance for national data compilers to improve IMTS compilation and dissemination. The 5th meeting of the Oslo Group on Energy Statistics will review and discuss the provisional draft of the International Recommendations for Energy Statistics (IRES). The preparation of IRES has been undertaken following the recommendations of the UN Statistical Commission to update the UN manual on energy statistics and to further develop international standards in energy statistics. The agenda include, among others, the following topics: classification of energy products, measurement units and conversion factors, statistical units and data items, data sources and collection strategies, energy balances data quality and data dissemination. The United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with AFRISTAT and the National Statistical Office of France (INSEE) is organizing a workshop for statisticians of French-speaking African countries. The workshop will present the conceptual as well as main structural changes for the revised International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) and the Central Product Classification (CPC). It will also review current implementation of activity and product classifications in the region and will try to coordinate the work on a regional classification for AFRISTAT member countries. |
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