Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objective is to enable participants: * To have an understanding of the range of techniques which make up a cognitive interview; * To have increased their own ability to do cognitive interviewing; * To have insight into selecting and recruiting respondents; * To have insight into analysing cognitive interview data and creating better survey questions; * To have awareness of a broad range of uses for cognitive interviewing; * To have awareness of the contribution of cognitive interviewing in comparison to other testing methods; * To understand how cognitive interviewing can improve questionnaires on gender topics and thus the associated social statistics.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at NSI methodologists and social scientists whose work involves conducting surveys
Description: <p>This webinar was jointly organized by the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) and the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians. We welcomed speakers from the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) who presented on qualitative research with statistically under-represented groups within the Office for National Statistics.</p><p>Qualitative research methods typically involve the collection and analysis of non-numerical data, such as people’s accounts of their experiences, needs and priorities, and perspectives. Their inclusiveness, and ability to help researchers understand nuanced topics and maintain rigour with sample sizes much smaller than typical statistical research makes them perfect for investigating the experiences of groups who are typically under-represented in survey data.</p>
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1st Meeting of the New Task Team of the Committee for Coordination of Statistical Activities on the Estimation of Total Number of Households
Description: UNSD and other members of Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA), namely UN Population Division, UN-Habitat, UNFPA, ITU and WHO held a first online meeting of new task team on the estimation of total numbers of households. The task team was created at the most recent CCSA session in October to review ongoing international data collection efforts on the total number of households, to explore methodologies and new data sources, and to outline the necessary resources and timelines to produce comparable time series data on the total number of households. The discussion focused on: stocktaking on the data availability for total number of households worldwide and respective sources; stocktaking of any existing methods used by countries for estimating the total number of households in intercensal periods and producing respective time series; needed research and resources to make it possible. As a first step the UN entities will provide a summary of their work in collecting data for total number of households, respective sources, and related research by mid-January 2024. Processes to bring this work to the UN Statistical Commission were also discussed.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To enable participants: * To have an understanding of the range of techniques which make up a cognitive interview; * To have increased their own ability to do cognitive interviewing; * To have insight into selecting and recruiting respondents; * To have insight into analysing cognitive interview data and creating better survey questions; * To have awareness of a broad range of uses for cognitive interviewing; * To have awareness of the contribution of cognitive interviewing in comparison to other testing methods; * To understand how cognitive interviewing can improve questionnaires on gender topics and thus the associated social statistics.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at NSI methodologists and social scientists whose work involves conducting surveys.
Description: ESCWA is organizing the fifth meeting of the technical advisory group on demographic and social statistics in Arab countries. This meeting aims to: Review and discuss the ESCWA work programme, “Supporting the Promotion and Modernization of Demographic and Social Statistics in Arab Countries” Present the available data for basic demographic and social indicators in the Arab countries, discuss tools for capturing data on these indicators and formulate solutions to bridge the data gap Discuss the availability of labour force statistics and sources of such data, national good practices in data collection and dissemination and existing challenges facing national statistical offices in providing such data Present a summary of the ESCWA initiative on collecting data on the middle class in the Arab region Review the regional strategic framework for civil registration and vital statistics.
Organizer(s): UNCTAD UN Women UNSD UNITAR Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Description: <p>Citizens' contribution to data, broadly defined as the engagement of citizens in multiple processes in the data value chain, from specifying needs to use of the data to inform policy, is increasingly recognized for its unique ability to help overcome many data challenges of our times and in contributing to the inclusiveness of official statistics.</p><p>Citizens’ contribution to data could happen at different levels – global, regional, national, or local. The engagement of citizens can be organized by different stakeholders - scientists, community leaders, civil society organisations (CSOs), or individual citizens. Their engagement can contribute to various stages of the data value chain and serve different objectives and contribute to data and policy in many different ways.</p><p>When people—especially those who have been historically excluded from decision making— actively participate in decisions about data collection, design, analysis, and use, they gain greater access to the benefits of data. The official statistical community increasingly recognizes the importance of non-state actors in contributing to the inclusiveness of official statistics.</p>
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise a Training Course on 'Usage of Administrative Registries in Producing Demographic and Social Statistics' for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of OIC countries on 19-20 September 2022 through an online video conferencing platform. Experts at the Population and Demographic Statistics, and Social Statistics Departments of Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) will jointly conduct the course and cover the following topics: Administrative Data Used in Education Statistics Education Employment Database (General information, data collection and result tables) Education Expenditure Statistics (General information and data sources) Administrative Data Used in Social Protection Statistics Social Protection Statistics (General information and data sources) Administrative Data Used in Culture and Justice Statistics Justice Statistics (General information, data collection and result tables) Cultural Expenditure Statistics (General information and data sources) Population statistics from administrative registries: Address Based Population Registration System Vital statistics from administrative registries (birth, mortality, marriage, divorce) The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 04 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To enable participants: * To have an understanding of the range of techniques which make up a cognitive interview; * To have increased their own ability to do cognitive interviewing; * To have insight into selecting and recruiting respondents; * To have insight into analysing cognitive interview data and creating better survey questions; * To have awareness of a broad range of uses for cognitive interviewing; * To have awareness of the contribution of cognitive interviewing in comparison to other testing methods; * To understand how cognitive interviewing can improve questionnaires on gender topics and thus the associated social statistics.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at NSI methodologists and social scientists whose work involves conducting surveys.
Source: IOM GMDAC (Data extracted on: 31 May 2022 )
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Organizer(s): IOM African Union OECD Statistics Sweden
Description: Diasporas, sometimes referred to as expatriates or transnational communities, play an important role in harnessing the benefits of migration for development. Measuring issues related to diaspora groups is difficult, as there is no common definition of "diasporas". Data on migrant stocks can serve as a proxy for diaspora populations, and remittance data are also closely related to the study of diasporas. Since the 1990s, many states have put in place extensive programmes to promote diaspora relations. However, differences in definitions and the lack of robust monitoring and evaluation make it difficult to compare these policies. Data on diaspora populations are difficult to collect, as emigrants are not automatically members of diasporas, and second- and third-generation descendants of migrants may also be considered or consider themselves to be part of a diaspora group. Generally, there is far more information available on diasporas than there are data.
Description: The third meeting of the Regional Steering Group on Population and Social Statistics (RSG-PSS) was held virtually from 7 to 8 September 2021. Two years after its second meeting, the RSG-PSS is convened to review the progress of work, its structure, functioning, and means of implementation and to decide on the way forward. The main objectives of the meeting were to: Review the progress of the Regional Strategy and decide on future priority areas and activities, including the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath; Revisit the Terms of Reference for the RSG-PSS; Identify opportunities for knowledge and experience sharing through existing platforms (e.g. Stats Café Series and Data Integration Community of Practice); Identify existing initiatives and tools by development partners that may support the implementation of the Regional Strategy. Meeting report Draft revised RSG-PSS Terms of reference (This draft will be submitted to the Committee on Statistics at its eight session in August 2022; the revisions shall be subject to approval by the Committee on Statistics.) Agenda Concept note Snapshot of the Regional Strategy to Improve Population and Social Statistics in Asia and the Pacific List of participants Group photo Background document Draft RSG-PSS Term of Reference , RSG-PSS Home 1st meeting (Aug. 2017) 2nd meeting (Jul. 2019) 3rd meeting (Sep. 2021)
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 21 Dec 2020 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The goal of the course is to make participants familiar with standards and guidelines relevant for frames in social statistics, in particular the ESS Quality Guidelines on Frames for Social Statistics (QGFSS). This concerns: * Constructing and maintaining frames; * Using frames; * Assessing and evaluating the quality of frames.
Target Audience: Staff concerned with the construction, maintenance and/or use of frames in social statistics. ESTP Trainings are open to non-ESS members if capacity allows after ESS needs are fulfilled.
Description: The workshopprovided an overview of the concept of social expenditure and presents the ESCWA framework of Social Expenditure Monitor (SEM). The discussions focused on its usefulness and application to potential budget and policy reforms in the context of improving allocative efficiency and effectiveness of budgeting toward achieving the SDGs. In the workshop sessions, discussions around relevance of budget data for the SEM, mapping dimensions and indicators of SEM into national budgets, identifying challenges and possibilities of filling data gaps took place. In addition, feedback from participants on tailoring and implementing the SEM in each national context was provided.
Description: In following-up to the first Regional Steering Group on Population and Social Statistics (RSG-PSS) meeting, the second meeting is called to review a number of challenges that countries in the Asia-Pacific region are facing to meet the requirements related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) monitoring in the area of population and social statistics. In particular, the meeting has the following key objectives: To identify critical challenges where regional initiatives can support countries to develop an integrated system of population and social statistics and ensure they are properly used to monitor global and national SDGs; To review organization, activities and outputs of the RSG-PSS to effectively meet the needs of national statistical systems and in line with the Collective Vision and Framework for Action by the Asia-Pacific statistical community. Meeting report List of participants Agenda Concept Note Background documents Proposal on future of the Regional Strategy for Population and Social Statistics Stats Brief, July 2019 (Issue no. 19): Integrated Statistics: A journey worthwhile Report of the first meeting of the Regional Steering Group on Population and Social Statistics Report of the Committee on Statistics on its sixth session [ESCAP/CST/2018/6] Meeting the data and statistics needs for socially inclusive development for all: proposed implementation plan for the regional strategy to improve population and social statistics in Asia and the Pacific [E/ESCAP/CST(5)/3] Corrigendum – [E/ESCAP/CST(5)/3/Corr.1] Advancing official statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: a collective vision and framework for action by the Asia-Pacific statistical community [E/ESCAP/CST(5)/1/REV.1] , RSG-PSS Home 1st meeting (Aug. 2017) 2nd meeting (Jul. 2019) 3rd meeting (Sep. 2021)
