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The United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) in collaboration with the United Statistics Division (UNSD) is conducting a training workshop short term economic indicators and service statistics in Chiba, Japan during 25-27 September 2017. The training course focuses on contemporary issues in the production of macroeconomic indicators that are crucial for monitoring short term economic developments using standard 2008 SNA methods and related approaches. Specifically, the course will focus on statistics relating to business cycles, short -term macroeconomic indicators and service sector statistics including their associated measures. Participants have been drawn from Asia-Pacific countries. Other collaborating partners are the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) of the Government of Japan and the Swiss Economic Institute.

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) are organizing jointly a capacity building workshop on gender statistics, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan. This regional workshop will take place in Chiba, Japan from 16 to 19 April 2013. The purpose of the workshop is to train national statisticians on the production and use of gender statistics, as well as discuss the newly developed UN manual: Manual for Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics.