Description: UNSD, under the Data For Now initiative, organized a high-level seminar and technical workshop to discuss the potential of mobile network operator (MNO) data to gain insights into internal migration to deliver information needed by decision makers.
The Tunisian Institut National de la Statistique (INS), recognizing the strategic nature of timely estimations of internal migration for many development domains such as demographic projections, resource allocation and social equity, has identified the area of internal migration as one of the priorities in line with their national development plans within the Data For Now initiative.
The event brought together, for the first time, representatives from all the three Tunisian telecommunication companies, the telecommunication regulator, the data protection authority and other relevant national stakeholders in a joint conversation on the feasibility of accessing and using mobile positioning data for statistical production. While the high-level seminar presented the potential of the mobile phone data in light of international benchmarks and local stakeholder feedback, the workshop was focused on technical aspects of the use of MNO data for statistical purposes, including statistical needs, data requirements, data processing modalities, data privacy, ethical use of data, and quality criteria.
At the end of the workshop, the participants jointly developed a roadmap which defines next steps for project planning for access to migration data outputs based on MNO data, with commitment and support from national stakeholders to ensure the privacy and confidentiality.
Before and after the events, several meetings and online events took place, including a preparatory webinar on the use of MNO data for statistics for the MNOs facilitated by UNSD.
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), is organizing a three-day Regional Workshop on Time Use Statistics: Methods and Uses in Tunis, Tunisia. The event will take place on 10-12 October 2023.
The objective of the workshop is to develop national capacities on the methodology to collect and regularly produce comparable high-quality time-use data in cost-effective ways by adopting innovative and digitalization data collection methods; to analyze data to inform and answer policy questions; and to better understand progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The workshop will provide the opportunity to share the updates to the UN Guidelines on time-use statistics and to provide hands-on training on the adaptation at the national level of proposed methods to collect, analyse, disseminate, and communicate time-use data, including time spent on unpaid care and domestic work. It is expected that the newly developed tools will lessen the burden on respondents and the high cost associated with paper diaries and improve data quality.
