Description: <p>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.</p><p>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.</p>
Description: We are pleased to announce the ISI IFC High Level Meeting on Data Governance. This meeting hosted by the National Institute of Statistics Tunisia (INS) will build on the earlier ISI Governance workshops organised in Africa. These meetings are important in building a “Strong Community of Innovative and Forward Looking Leaders in Official Statistics”. In the last years main orientation has been on monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the aim to develop innovative strategies for structural improvements of statistical offices and systems. They have been particularly useful to develop the active sharing of experiences among partners interested in data and statistics. In light of existing resources constraints in official statistics, the development of capacity building in Africa can benefit from drawing on all international support available as well as from joining forces between national statistical bodies – in particular, when addressing topics of common interest such as data governance. The ISI has therefore decided to organise this meeting in close co-operation with the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which is associated with the ISI, and the African Union Commission (AUC) and the INS. It will provide a key opportunity to further strengthen the dialogue between NCBs and NSOs. To facilitate participation, the meeting will be held back-to-back with the 13th Meeting of the Committee of Director Generals of National Statistical offices (CoDGs meeting) and will take place on 22nd November 2019 at Ramada Plaza Hotel, Gammarth – Tunis. A multinational Programme Committee has been set up to prepare for the meeting. Please find more information in the Concept Note. This documentation shall be in English, while discussions could also be held in French if needed.
Description: African Union Commission (AUC) and UN Statistics Division (UNSD) organize jointly the first Regional Training Workshop on Trade SDMX to raise awareness on SDMX-IMTS artifacts including data structure, concepts and code lists; and to train IT experts and trade statisticians in using latest SDMX tools to map their trade database in to SDMX-IMTS output. The workshop will be attended by around twenty-five African countries and various Regional Economic Communities. The main objectives of the workshop are as follows: - Train the Trade Experts, both IT and trade statistician, on SDMX introductory topic in general, focused on SDMX-IMTS data structure definition version 1.1; - Assist trade statisticians/experts in implementing SDMX-IMTS by conducting mapping exercise between national database and SDMX-IMTS code lists; - Contribute on on-going review of current data structure definition both at technical and substantive levels; - Test generic SDMX output function at Eurotrace.NET and explore possibility to integrate SDMX-IMTS into the latest version of Eurotrace.net.
