This session proposes to provide an update on work to date, with particular emphasis on the current phase of stock-taking and priority setting for future health and demographic data collection, production of key indicators, and dissemination of results. Experts from the Task Force, including representatives from a broad range of organizations (such as the United Nations Statistical Commission, World Bank, Open Data Watch, IPUMS, and National Statistical Offices) will provide insights, updates and recent work of the Task Force.
Presentations by the panel include:
Overview of Task Force goals and objectives
Creating a data access approach
Stocktaking and prioritization for health and demographic data collection
Country flash reports on demographic data collection practices
Organizer(s): IAOS Statistics Lithuania AI Generated
Description: The 2026 IAOS Conference, with the theme 'Navigating the Data Revolution: Innovations and Impact in Modern Statistics', will explore how advances in statistics are reshaping research, industry, and society. It will focus on the crucial role of modern statistical methods in extracting meaningful insights, guiding decisions, and driving innovation across disciplines.
High-quality, inclusive, and policy-relevant data from surveys are critical for evidence-based decision-making. In response to evolving data demands and persistent methodological challenges, the United Nations has revamped its 1984 Handbook on Household Surveys. The United Nations Handbook on Surveys of Households and Individuals: Foundations and Emerging Approaches, offers a global reference tool aimed at improving the design, implementation, and use of surveys across diverse contexts.
The Handbook is a major breakthrough that has three distinct characteristics. The first is the inclusion of emerging approaches, leveraging advances in survey methodologies in recent decades. The second is inclusion - the handbook includes guidance on surveying individuals living outside of traditional households. The third is an acknowledgment of surveys as integral components of a broader national data ecosystem, implying that they should be designed and implemented in coordination with other data sources to facilitate integration and reduce the respondent’s burden.
Discussions in the panel will introduce the Handbook, including the content, the revision and consultation process, and plans for dissemination and uptake. The panel will also reflect on how the Handbook could support address common implementation challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Statistics Lithuania
Description: The conference aims to bring together statisticians, academics and stakeholders to reinforce the dissemination of knowledge and recent research on emerging questions related to quality in official statistics. Furthermore, the conference aspires to foster cooperation between users and producers, to enhance cooperation and exchange between official statistics and the scientific community, and to provide a forum for the exchange of good practice in meeting new challenges in official statistics. The event will also focus on the institutional challenges of quality management, quality assurance in the emerging data ecosystem, and new challenges in creating and maintaining trust among users, as well as new opportunities in the face of global crises. This conference should also draw the attention of governmental bodies to the importance of high-quality, timely and more detailed statistics, and increase awareness among other stakeholders of the challenges faced by producers of official statistics, especially in times of crisis. In addition, one-day training courses on quality management, the role of statistics in the era of Big Data and in a future society, innovation and modernisation practices, as well as data journalism and data visualisation, will be held the day before the conference – 7 June 2022.
