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Date Name Organizer
24-28 January 2005 Workshop on Migration Statistics
Geneva, Switzerland		 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
25-27 January 2005 Expert Group Meeting on Development Goals Indicators
New York, USA		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Francesca Perucci
<perucci@un.org>
25-26 January 2005 Third Regional Workshop on Fiscal Policy and Environment
Santiago, Chile		 UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC)





Date Name Organizer
2-4 February 2005 Second Africa Preparatory Conference for the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS)
Accra, Ghana		 UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
3-4 February 2005 Forum for Asia/Pacific Statisticians (APEX - 1) Bangkok, Thailand UN Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
14-15 February 2005 Work Session on Statistical Dissemination and Communication
Henley-on-Thames,
United Kingdom		 UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)/Organization of Economic Developed Countries (OECD)
14-18 February 2005 Technical Subgroup Meeting on International Economic and Social Classifications
 New York, USA		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Ralf Becker
<beckerr@un.org>
28 Feb. to 4 March 2005 Workshop on Environment Statistics
Dakar, Senegal

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Ulrich Wieland
<wieland@un.org>



Date Name Organizer
1-4 March 2005 36th Session of the Statistical Commission,
New York, USA		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Stefan Schweinfest
<schweinfest@un.org>
15-17 March 2005 Workshop on Energy Statistics with Special Focus on Oil Statistics
Abuja, Nigeria

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Karoly Kovacs
<kovacs@un.org>

15-17 March 2005

Task Force on International Merchandise Trade Statistics
Bangkok, Thailand

Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
14-18 March 2005 Workshop on International Economic and Social Classifications,
Montevideo, Uruguay		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Ralf Becker
<beckerr@un.org>
21-23 March 2005 Workshop on Disability Statistics
Beirut, Lebanon		 United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
21-23 March 2005 Workshop on Migration Statistics
Geneva, Switzerland		 UNECE/UNFPA/NIDI
28 March to 1 April 2005 Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) Outreach Seminar for the Asia and Pacific Regions
Bangkok, Thailand
 International Monetary Fund (IMF)/ Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
31 March to April 2 2005 IAOS Satellite Meeting before the ISI Session: on the topic "Issues for Official Statistics for Small Countries"
Noumea, New Caledonia		 International Statistical Institute (ISI)



Date Name Organizer
4-5 April 2005 IASE Satellite Meeting before the ISI Session: on the topic "Statistics Education and the Communication of Statistics"
Sydney, Australia

International Statistical Institute (ISI)
5-12 April 2005

55th Biennial Session of the International Statistical Institute
Sydney, Australia

International Statistical Institute (ISI)

Participants from United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD): Paul Cheung, Francesca Coullare, Mary Chamie and Mary Jane Holupka

11-13 April 2005 Work Session on Registers and Administrative Records for Social and Demographic Statistics UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)/Eurostat
13-14 April 2005 Maghreb Seminar on Statistical Analysis for Development
 Tunis, Tunisia		 PARIS21/National Statistics Council of Tunisia
13-14 April 2005 IASS Satellite Conference after the ISI Session: "Complex sampling, Retrospective Sampling and Missing Data"
Auckland, New Zealand 		International Statistical Institute (ISI)
14-15 April 2005 IAOS Satellite Meeting after the ISI Session: "Challenges in Measuring Small and Indigenous Populations"
Wellington, New Zealand 		International Statistical Institute (ISI)
18-20 April 2005 Workshop on 2006 Population and Housing Census
 Cairo, Egypt		 United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
18-20 April 2005 Meeting on the Management of Statistical Information Systems (MSIS)  
Bratislava, Slovakia		 UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)/Organization of Economic Developed Countries (OECD)/Eurostat
19-22 April 2005

Workshop on 1993 System of National Accounts Update
Bangkok, Thailand

 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)/Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
21-27 April 2005 Sixty first Session of the ESCAP Commission

UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)




Date Name Organizer
3-4 May 2005 Third Workshop for Improving Disability Statistics and Measurement (for Pilot Countries)
Bangkok, Thailand
Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)/World Health Organization (WHO)
5-6 May 2005

Latin American Meeting on Environmental Statistics: presentation of results and outputs of the Network of Institutions and Experts on Social and Environmental Statistics (REDESA)
Santiago, Chile

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC)
11-13 May 2005 Seminar on Measurement of the Quality of Work
Geneva, Switzerland 		UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)/International Labour Organization
16-18 May 2005

Working Session on Statistical Data Editing
Canada, Ottawa

 UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
16-19 May 2005 Second Symposium on Statistics for Development: A Dialogue between Users and Producers of Statistics
Doha, Qatar

The Planning Council of Qatar/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Participant from United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD):
Stefan Schweinfest
17-19 May 2005 International Conference "UNESCO between two Phases of the World Summit on the Information Society"
Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation 		UNESCO
23-25 May 2005 Ad-hoc Energy Group Meeting
New York, USA		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Karoly Kovacs


 
Date Name Organizer
13-15 June 2005 53rd Plenary Session of the Conference of European Statisticians
Geneva, Switzerland		 UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
20-22 June 2005 Work Session on Water Statistics
Vienna, Austria		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Rosemary Montgomery <montgomery@un.org>
20-23 June 2005 Meeting of the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications
New York, USA		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Ralf Becker
<beckerr@un.org>
28-30 June 2005 Expert Group Meeting on Poverty Statistics
New York, USA 		United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Gisele Kamanou
27 June to 1 July 2005 Eighth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas
New York, USA

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Amor Laaribi <laaribi@un.org>
29 June to 1 July 2005

Meeting on Food and Agricultural Statistics
Rome, Italy

UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)/Organization of Economic Developed Countries (OECD)/Eurostat/ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)



Date Name Organizer
18-22 July 2005 Meeting of the Advisory Expert Group on National Accounts
Bangkok, Thailand		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), World Bank, UN Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Contact person:
Magdolna Csizmadia
24-28 July 2005

25th European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS)
Oslo, Norway

 EMS 2005
26-29 July 2005 International Workshop on Economic Census
Beijing, China		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Keping Yao



Date Name Organizer
22-25 August 2005 Expert Group on Distributive Trade Statistics - First Meeting
New York, USA 		United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Vladimir Markhonko

22-26 August 2005

 Expert Group Meeting on the 2010 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses
New York, USA 		United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Srdjan Mrkic
29-31 August 2005 Preliminary Meeting of the United Nations Committee on Environmental-Economic Accounting
New York, USA 		United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Alessandra Alfieri
30 Aug. to 2 Sept. 2005 Workshop on the Compilation on International Merchandise Trade Statistics
Abuja, Nigeria		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Ronald Jansen
31 Aug. to 2 Sept. 2005 Second World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR)
Gaborone, Botswana		 International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/UNESCO



Date Name Organizer
13-16 September 2005 Workshop on the Compilation of Statistics on International Trade in Services
Panama City, Panama		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Mathias Reister
14-16 September 2005 Expert Meeting on the Update of 1993 SNA: Canberra II
Geneva, Switzerland 		UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
19-23 September 2005 Expert Meeting on Industrial Statistics
New York, USA 		United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Gulab Singh
19-30 September 2005 Economic Statistics Workshop for Caribbean Countries
Washington DC, USA

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) ans United States Census Bureau

Contact person: Santiago Ferrer ferrers@un.org

21-23 September 2005 Work Session on Demographic Projections
Vienna, Austria
UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)



Date Name Organizer
3-6 October 2005 Conference on the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA):Understanding Tourism and Designing Strategies
Iguazu, Argentina/Brazil/Paraguay		 World Tourism Organization
5-7 October 2005 Expert Group Meeting on affordable technologies for disseminating official statistics
Bangkok, Thailand 		UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
10-14 October 2005 Joint Meeting on National Accounts
Paris, France		 UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)/
Organization of Economic Developed Countries (OECD)
24-28 October 2005

Technical Subgroup of the Expert Group Meeting on International Economic and Social Classifications
 New York, USA

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact person:
Ralf Becker
<beckerr@un.org>
31 Oct. to 11 Nov. 2005 First Regional Statistical Literacy Workshop
Bangkok, Thailand 		UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)



Date Name Organizer
9-11 November 2005 Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality
Geneva, Switzerland		 UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)/Eurostat
14-16 November 2005 Seminar on measurement of Health Issues
Budapest, Hungary 		UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), World Health Organization (WHO), Eurostat
14-18 November 2005 Meeting on Population and Housing Censuses UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
16-18 November 2005 Expert Group Meeting on International Migration Statistics
Beirut, Lebanon		 United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
16-18 November 2005 Fourth Workshop for Improving Disability Statistics and Measurement
Bangkok, Thailand 		UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)



Date Name Organizer
5-9 December 2005 Workshop on Data and Indicators to Monitor Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals
Praia, Cape Verde		 United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Contact persons:
Francesca Coullare or Fabia Yazaki
12-16 December 2005

Meeting on Population and Housing Censuses
Geneva, Switzerland

 UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)/ Eurostat
13-15 December 2005 Workshop for South Asia on National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS)
Colombo, Sri Lanka		 Paris 21/UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)