Demographic and Social Statistics

Overview

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 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.

Main documents

• Programme of work
• Concept note: Arabic / English
• List of participants
• Conclusions and recommendations: Arabic / English / French

Presentations

• Session 2 - Global and regional programmes in support of 2020 round population and housing censuses
• UNSD - Overview of the 2020 Round of Population and Housing Censuses
• ESCWA - Support of 2020 round population and housing censuses
• UNFPA-ASRO - An overview of the progress made in conducting censuses in the Arab countries (Arabic)
• AITRS - Population censuses (Arabic)
• Session 4 - Quality assurance in population and housing censuses
• UNSD - Quality assurance in population and housing censuses
• Algeria - Population and Housing Census 2022 (Arabic)
• Djibouti - Data quality methodology for the implementation of the population and housing census (Arabic)
• Mauritania - Quality assurance in population and housing censuses (Arabic)
• Tunisia - Ensuring the quality of census data in Population and Housing Census 2024 (Arabic)
• State of Palestine - Quality assurance in population and housing censuses (Arabic)
• Session 5 - Evaluation of the quality of census processes and census data
• UNSD - Evaluation of the quality of census processes and census data
• UNFPA-ASRO - An overview of the progress made in conducting censuses in the Arab countries (Arabic)
• Egypt - Evaluation of the quality of census processes and census data
• Jordan - Evaluation of the quality of census operations and data in Jordan (Arabic)
• State of Palestine - Evaluation of the quality of census processes and census data(Arabic)
• Session 6 - Monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the implementation of population and housing censuses
• UNSD - Monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the implementation of population and housing censuses
• Session 8 - Assessment of quality of censuses conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Qatar - Assessment of quality of censuses conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic (Arabic)
• Session 10 - Introduction to the Handbook on Registers-based Population and Housing Censuses, and moving to a registers-based approach
• UNSD - Introduction to the Handbook on Registers-based Population and Housing Censuses
• Egypt - (Arabic)
• State of Palestine - Enumerations based on records (Arabic)
• Session 11 - Types of administrative data sources
• UNSD - Types of administrative registers
• Qatar - Types of administrative data sources (Arabic)
• Session 12 - Transforming administrative data into census data
• UNSD - Transforming administrative data into census data
• Oman - Transforming administrative data into census data (Arabic)
• Session 13 - Quality assessment
• UNSD - Quality assessment of administrative data sources for population and housing censuses
• Oman - Population and Housing Census 2020 (Arabic)