Description: The "High-level Webinar on Population and Housing Censuses" is the second event in the "Road to the Commission" webinar series leading to its 56th session of the Statistical Commission. The objectives of the High-level Webinar include: i) Promote the adoption and implementation of the revised Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (Revision 4); ii) Facilitate the launch and implementation of the 2030 World Population and Housing Census Programme; iii) Share lessons learned from the 2020 census round and prepare for census-taking in the 2030 round.
Date: Wednesday, 5 February 2025 Time: 8:00am – 9:30am (EST/New York time) Event webpage: Link
Description: Please click here to join on Monday 2 December 2024 at 11:00 - 12:30hrs Bangkok time The United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians recently conducted a sprint to explore the development of a housing statistics framework to assist in monitoring, understanding, and addressing the multifaceted issues associated with housing across various regions and socio-economic contexts. This session will summarise the housing sprint and take a deep dive into Statistics Canada’s framework for housing data. The session will address some examples of challenges encountered by NSOs in producing data on housing and showcase innovative approaches to overcome some of these challenges by using administrative data, web scraping, satellite imaging, AI and other techniques. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: The United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians recently conducted a sprint to explore the development of a housing statistics framework to assist in monitoring, understanding, and addressing the multifaceted issues associated with housing across various regions and socio-economic contexts. This session will summarise the housing sprint and take a deep dive into Statistics Canada’s framework for housing data. The session will address some examples of challenges encountered by NSOs in producing data on housing and showcase innovative approaches to overcome some of these challenges by using administrative data, web scraping, satellite imaging, AI and other techniques. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: The second webinar will address some examples of the most common housing indicators that are needed and produced, as well as some of the more familiar challenges encountered by NSOs in producing data on housing. Furthermore, the webinar will showcase innovative approaches to overcome some of these challenges by using administrative data, web scraping, satellite imaging, AI and other techniques.
Description: Report of the Workshop Provisional Programme Concept note (English | 中文) Self-Assessment Tool on the Readiness to Use Administrative Data for Census (SATRAC) (Excel file) Objectives and Outcomes The workshop aims to strengthen participants’ capacity on how to better use administrative data to support the census. The objectives of the workshop are to: Provide an overview of the different potential uses of administrative data sources for the census. Discuss the concepts, features, preconditions, considerations, challenges, opportunities, and processes involved in the use of administrative data sources for census purposes. Discuss the self-assessment tool on the readiness to use administrative data for census purposes. Introduce the “Generic model for the transition from a traditional census to register-based approaches”. Draft potential approaches to increase the use of administrative data for censuses in participating countries. Exchange experience and learn from participating countries. Resources This workshop builds upon the Regional Training Workshop on Transition to Register-based Approaches for Population and Housing Censuses. Some of the key resources for this workshop include: UNFPA Register-Based Census eLearning Course United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Guidelines on the use of registers and administrative data for population and housing censuses. United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2018. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Guidelines for assessing the quality of administrative sources for use in censuses. United Nations, Geneva, 2021. United Nations Statistics Division. Handbook on Registers-Based Population and Housing Censuses, 2022. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Emerging Trends in Census Approaches in Asia and the Pacific – with country examples. United Nations, Bangkok, 2022. ESCAP Stats Briefs: Tapping into administrative data in census-taking: an emerging trend in Asia and the Pacific (2022) Are population censuses in Asia and the Pacific evolving? (2021) Population registers: a key resource for producing vital statistics (2020)
Description: This is a side event of the twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee of the SCA-ECLAC. The objective of the seminar is to share innovations from the 2020 census round and lessons learned from the perspective of directors of national statistical offices. It seeks to contribute to the planning of the 2030 census round, enhancing lessons learned and capacities acquired in light of the results and challenges.
Description: The webinar of the sprint will take a deep dive into Statistics Canada's framework for housing statistics, while also addressing the question of why housing data matters from the point of view of policy makers and other users.
Description: On 10 July 2023, the Demographic and Social Statistics Branch organized a hybrid meeting on the above topic, in collaboration with the European Commission Joint Research Center, Eurostat and UN-Habitat. The meeting discussed the Degree of Urbanisation-DEGURBA method as a geospatial approach to the definition of cities, urban and rural areas in a harmonised manner across countries, which is particularly important for monitoring SDG 11 indicators on “Sustainable Cities and Communities”. The method was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in 2020, for international and regional comparison purposes. UN-Habitat, European Commission and UNSD are working towards building member states’ capacity for the implementation of this methodology as recommended by the Statistical Commission. Discussants from the Statistics Division, UNFPA and Eurostat exchanged lessons learned and the progress made in building capacity on the methodology. Data experts from UN-Habitat and the Joint Research Centre presented with examples how geospatial data are used to monitor human settlements and support census activities. Overall, the meeting highlighted the power of geospatial information to assess the urbanisation process and contribute to the localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Description: The United Nations Regional Workshop on the 2020 World Programme for Population and Housing Censuses for Arabic-speaking Countries is organized by UNSD in collaboration with the UNFPA Arab States Regional Office, the United Nations Economic Commission for Central and Western Asia (ESCWA), and the Arab Institute for Training and Research on Statistics (AITRS). The workshop aims to help Arabic-speaking countries in achieving a common and enhanced understanding of international recommendations and standards on quality assurance in population and housing censuses, the impact, and challenges of conducting a population and housing census during the COVID-19 pandemic and other crisis situations, and the necessary preconditions and the challenges of transitioning to a registers-based census. The workshop will also provide a platform to discuss the experience, challenges, and good practices available among Arabic-speaking countries in census-taking during the 2020 census round. The Workshop will bring together census managers and experts from national statistical offices, census agencies, international and regional organizations to exchange views and experience on the three interrelated themes of the workshop. The workshop will be held in English. Simultaneous interpretation in Arabic and vice-versa will be provided.
Description: The objective of the workshop is to build participants’ knowledge and skills in the use of register-based censuses to produce official statistics as an alternative to the traditional censuswhile also providing a platform for exchanging experiences and lessons learnt in transitioning to this approach.
Description: Within the framework of its Webinar Series on Statistical Experience Sharing, SESRIC will organise a Webinar on ‘2020 Round of Population & Housing Censuses: Census Editing & Validation’ on 7 September 2022, in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) with the participation of official statisticians working in National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of the OIC member countries. The main objective of this Webinar is to facilitate a platform to introduce the UN Handbook on Population and Housing Censuses Editing (Revision 2) while focusing on editing procedures for censuses conducted with electronic questionnaires as well as the assessment of the quality of the editing process and validation of census data. The Webinar will cover: UN Handbook on Population and Housing Censuses Editing (Revision 2) Editing in Censuses & Surveys Use of Electronic Data Collection Technologies in Censuses Quality Assurance & Assessment of the Quality of the Process Experiences of OIC Countries in Census Editing & Validation Document: Concept Note and Work Programme (English)
Description: The United Nations Regional Workshop on the 2020 World Population and Housing Censuses: International Standards and Contemporary Technologies is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) for French-speaking African countries. The workshop is conducted in French and English and in a virtual format. The objective of the workshop is to introduce three of UNSD's latest international guidelines on population and housing censuses—the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 3, the Handbook on the Management of Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 2, and the Guidelines on the Use of Electronic Data Collection Technologies in Population and Housing Censuses—and the standards, concepts and methods contained therein with a view to facilitate planning and preparations for the 2020 round of population and housing censuses. The workshop also provides an opportunity to discuss the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on conducting 2020 round of population and housing censuses and possible modifications in census procedures
Description: This is a side-event of the Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, organized by CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC and the National Statistical Institute of Chile.
2021 ICP for Asia and the Pacific - Seventh Regional Online Workshop: Technical Evaluation and Review of Housing Rental and Discussion of Housing Volume Concepts
Description: Population and housing censuses provide fundamental information for development planning including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, on the size, growth, distribution, geographical location and characteristics of the population. Censuses also provide data on various statistical areas related to population and housing, disaggregated by small geographic areas, population groups, minorities, and various demographic and social characteristics such as gender, age, education, migration, labor force, and people with disabilities. In recent decades, most countries have conducted at least one population census. In the Arab region, during the past six years, Egypt, the Emirates of Sharjah and Ajman in the UAE, Jordan and the State of Palestine have conducted a successful census using modern technology, whereas other countries such as Algeria, Iraq and Sudan are undertaking activities in planning for the coming census. Noting that the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are planning to implement register-based censuses in 2020 census round. The implementation of censuses in other countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Lebanon and Syria remains subject to security and political conditions. Despite the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar have carried out register-based censuses, and Oman Census 2020 is the first census that is fully based on registers, noting that Bahrain conducted a census in the 2010 round that was based partly on registers and partly on the traditional methodology (face-to-face) and the use of self-enumeration using the Internet and the phone, while other countries postponed their censuses for the coming years, with the continued spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. To review the progress made and promote the undertaking of censuses being planned or hindered, the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in cooperation with the Regional Office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Gulf Cooperation Council Statistical Centre (GCC-Stat), and the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistic (AITRS), is organizing a “Regional Workshop on the 2020 round of Population and Housing Census: Monitoring progress and the way forward” The workshop aims to review the population and housing censuses that have been implemented and the progress made in countries planning their upcoming censuses, as well as to benefit from regional experiences and good practices in undertaking 2020 census round and the importance of regional cooperation; and to discuss ways to expedite the undertaking of 2020 round of censuses in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop will also discuss obstacles in undertaking censuses in some countries, including scenarios for their implementation and ways of providing technical support and mobilizing financial resources (if possible). All related presentations can be found on the Arabic link of the webpage.
Title in Arabic: رصد التقدم المحرز وسبل المضي قدما في جولة تعدادات السكان والمساكن 2020
Organizer(s): ESCWA UNFPA AITRS GCC Stat
Description: توفر تعدادات السكان والمساكن معلومات أساسية للتخطيط التنموي، بما في ذلك خطة التنمية المستدامة لعام 2030، حيث تتضمن بيانات عن حجم السكان ونموهم وتوزعهم وموقعهم الجغرافي والمكاني وخصائصهم المختلفة وغيرها. كما توفر التعدادات بيانات عن مختلف المجالات الإحصائية المتصلة بالسكان والإسكان، مصنّفة حسب المناطق الجغرافية الصغيرة والتجمعات السكانية والأقليات ومختلف الخصائص السكانية والاجتماعية مثل الجنس والعمر والتعليم والهجرة والقوى العاملة والأشخاص ذوي الإعاقات. وخلال العقود الأخيرة، أجرت غالبية البلدان تعداداً سكانياً واحداً على الأقل.
Description: SESRIC will organise a Workshop on ‘Use of Administrative Registers for Population and Housing Censuses’ in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) on 29-30 June 2021 through a video conferencing platform with the participation of NSOs of OIC member countries. The Workshop aims to focus on key considerations and requirements for transitioning from traditional census to alternative census methodologies involving the use of administrative registers and building institutional capacity and infrastructure for maintaining statistical registers for successful implementation of population and housing censuses. The Workshop will cover the following topics: Necessary conditions for the use of administrative registers for population and housing censuses Establishing base registers for transitioning to a combined or register-based census Building comprehensive and reliable statistical registers for censuses and for combining with survey data Evaluation of the quality of data and communication with register-owners to improve the quality Documents: Concept Note (English) (Arabic) (French)
Description: The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) organized virtual workshops to discuss benefits and challenges of utilising PHC and CRVS data in monitoring SDGs. Two rounds of identical workshops were delivered on: Round 1: 27-30 October, 07:00-10:00 a.m. (Bangkok time). Round 2: 3-6 November, 11:00 a.m.-14:00 p.m. (Bangkok time). The workshops also provided a platform to further elaborate on utilising PHC and CRVS statistics for disaggregating SDG indicators and discuss the use of geospatial information and tools for generating relevant SDG indicators from CRVS and census data. Ultimately the workshops would help to achieve a common and improved understanding of definitions and method of computation of SDG indicators. The following issues were discussed during the workshops: SDG indicators that can be directly measured or estimated approximately using existing census or CRVS data based on the internationally recommended topics; Challenges related to the use of census and CRVS data for the measurement of indicators and analytical strategies to mitigate or overcome those challenges; Advantages of census and CRVS data for the disaggregation of the SDG indicators and, where applicable, some of the precautions needing to be addressed; Geospatial information and tools for generating and disaggregating SDG indicators using census data.
Description: The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) are organizing virtual workshops to discuss benefits and challenges of utilising PHC and CRVS data in monitoring SDGs. Two rounds of identical workshops will be delivered on: Round 1: 27-30 October, 07:00-10:00 a.m. (Bangkok time). Round 2: 3-6 November, 11:00 a.m.-14:00 p.m. (Bangkok time). The workshops will also provide a platform to further elaborate on utilising PHC and CRVS statistics for disaggregating SDG indicators and discuss the use of geospatial information and tools for generating relevant SDG indicators from CRVS and census data. Ultimately the workshops will help to achieve a common and improved understanding of definitions and method of computation of SDG indicators. The following issues will be discussed during the workshops: SDG indicators that can be directly measured or estimated approximately using existing census or CRVS data based on the internationally recommended topics; Challenges related to the use of census and CRVS data for the measurement of indicators and analytical strategies to mitigate or overcome those challenges; Advantages of census and CRVS data for the disaggregation of the SDG indicators and, where applicable, some of the precautions needing to be addressed; Geospatial information and tools for generating and disaggregating SDG indicators using census data.
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Title in Arabic: تعزيز القدرة الجغرافية المكانية في تعدادات السكان والمساكن للبلدان العربية
Organizer(s): AITRS UNFPA ESCWA
Description: يعتبر التعداد العام للسكان والمساكن أحد أكثر الأنشطة تعقيداً وضخامةً التي تقوم بها الدول في أوقات السلم. ويتطلب التعداد إعداداً كافياً من حيث الموارد البشرية، والتقنيات، والموازنة والأمور اللوجستية. ومهما يكن، فإن تقنيات التعداد تتغير بسرعة خاصة في المجال الجغرافي- الفضائي وتقنيات المعلومات والاتصال. فبعض التقنيات التي كانت متاحة واستعملت في دورة التعداد لعام 2010 أصبحت الآن قديمة، خاصة في مجال تقنيات المعلومات. وشهدت البيانات الجغرافية- المكانية بصورة خاصة عدة ابتكارات تكنولوجية، يمكن تطبيقها في دورة تعداد 2020 من أجل إنتاج بيانات من التعداد لها مرجعية جغرافية أكثر دقة وفي الوقت المناسب.
