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UNSD Calendar of Events The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the State
Statistics Committee of Ukraine and the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CISSTAT)
is organizing a workshop on statistics of international trade in services in the CIS countries. The workshop will be hosted by
the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine between 7 and 9 October 2008 in Kiev. Contact: Karoly Kovacs, +1 212 963 4748; e-mail: kovacs@un.org The purpose of the Workshop is to present international standards for processing population and housing censuses and to highlight the significant additional capabilities of contemporary technologies and their use for census data capture and data editing. More specifically, the Workshop will: (1) Present revised international standards for conducting population and housing censuses, focusing on recommended core topics as identified in the United Nations Principles and Recommendations Revision 2; (2) Present and discuss contemporary technologies in census data capture, including the use of Optical Mark Recognition (OMR), Optical Character Recognition/Intelligent Character Recognition (OCR/ICR), Internet data collection, use of handheld devices for data collection, (3) Discuss the process stages for data capture, (4) Present an overview of major commercial suppliers for data capture; (5) Present the principles and practices for census data coding and data editing; and (6) Present international standards for data documentation and archiving and corresponding tools. The workshop will also offer the possibility to the participants to present the experience of their countries in census data processing. For more information, please refer to the website: Contact: Jean-Michel Durr, +1 212 367 9165; e-mail: durr@un.org Twelfth
Session of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities The CCSA was established in 2002, taking over its key
objectives from the former ACC Subcommittee on Statistical Activities,
namely to promote coordination, integration and complementarity among
the statistical programmes of the international organizations. The members
of the Committee are the Chief Statisticians of the agencies of the United
Nations System, as well as from other international organizations with
significant statistical programmes. The Committee meets twice a year
and its conclusions are presented to the UN Statistical Commission. This
meeting is the first meeting on the African continent—hosted
by the African Development Bank. The purpose of the meeting is threefold. First, it aims at identifying the scope and content of contemporary social statistics in order to identify areas that need to be addressed by an international plan of action. In essence, for each social concern there needs to be an accompanying statistical data collection that requires relevant concepts and definitions, international standards, recommended topics, recommended tabulations, defined periodicity, and sources of data. Collected data would also need to be disaggregated by population groups (young, elderly, women, to name a few) and by geographical levels. Second, the meeting will address the issue of an international action plan for improving social statistics, pertaining to areas that require additional work, as well as on related issues such as coordination among various agencies and institutions regarding social statistics at both the national and international levels. This draft action plan would position the United Nations Statistics Division to continue conducting a thorough review and assessment of social statistics and point to the necessary developmental work on international standards. Finally, the meeting is expected to result in the draft terms of reference for the proposed city group, if the need for such a group is clearly identified. The proposal for establishment of the city group replacing the Siena City Group on Social Statistics was initiated at the Seminar on New Directions in Social Statistics, held on 22 February 2008 in New York. For more information, please refer to the website: Contact: Srdjan Mrkic, +1 212 963 4940; e-mail: mrkic@un.org At its thirty-ninth session (26
- 29 February 2008) the Statistical Commission endorsed the United Nations
Statistics Division (UNSD) initiative and strategy to revise the existing
recommendations for international merchandise trade statistics and requested
that the draft revised recommendations be submitted to the Commission
for adoption at its forty-first session in 2010. One key element of
the UNSD revision strategy is a worldwide consultation process with
national trade statistics compilers. In this context UNSD in cooperation
with the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific (UN/ESCAP)
organizes a workshop for Developing Countries on the Revision of the
Recommendations for International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS),
which will take place from 9 to 12 September 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand.
This workshop is part of a special effort of UNSD and UN/ESCAP to inform
and receive feedback from developing countries on this revision process.
The workshop will review and discuss the current recommendations on
international merchandise trade statistics contained in International
Merchandise Trade Statistics, Revision 2 (IMTS, Rev.2), in particular
but not limited to the important issues identified by the expert group
on IMTS in its first meeting in December 2007 and subject to a worldwide
consultation. Contact: Matthias Reister, +1 917 367 7098; e-mail: reister@un.org Sub-regional
workshop on Water Accounts for ESCWA and GCC Countries The Sub-regional workshop will bring together the experts
from the National Statistical Offices, from Ministries of Water in the
six Arab Gulf Countries, and from concerned research centres, to share
experiences in the development of water statistics and accounts. The
workshop will focus on water accounts and aims to enhance their understanding
of the System of Environmental Accounts for Water (SEEA-W) to facilitate
the implementation of the System and compilation of the recommended standard
tables of the SEEA-W. Contact: Michael Vardon, +1 917 367 5391; e-mail: vardon@un.org United Nations Workshop on Manufacturing Statistics The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Instituto
Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), is organizing a Workshop on Manufacturing Statistics, scheduled for 19-22 August 2008 in Santiago, Chile. This workshop
continues the programme for the development of comprehensive and comparable manufacturing statistics in the Latin American region, initiated by an exploratory workshop in September 2007. Contact: Ralf Becker, +1 212 963 4600; e-mail: beckerr@un.org Workshop on the standardization of geographical names A workshop on the standardization of geographical names will be held jointly organized by the African Organization of Cartography and Remote Sensing (AOCRS) and the Institut Géographique du Burkina Faso and co-organized by the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names and UNSD.
Contact: Yacob Zewoldi, +1 212 963 0445; e-mail: zewoldi@un.org Workshop on the Organization of National Statistical Systems and User-Producer
Relations The United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the Department of Census and Statistics of Sri Lanka is organizing a “Workshop on the Organization of National Statistical Systems and User-Producer Relations”. It will take place from 21 to 24 July 2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The workshop aims at highlighting the role of the national statistical office in general and, in particular, its relation to major user groups. This workshop is organized under a Development Account project on “Strengthening statistical capacity -building in support of progress towards the Internationally Agreed Developments Goals in countries of South Asia”. In addition to the Workshop, a consultation session with other development partners will be held in the afternoon of July 21 on statistical capacity-building in South Asia. Contact: Youlia Antonova, Tel. +1 212 367 3376, email: antonova@un.org United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Industrial Statistics The Statistics Division (UNSD) is hosting a meeting of the United Nations Expert Group on Industrial Statistics from 15 to 17 July 2008. The meeting will (i) focus on the review of draft text for the Index Numbers of Industrial Production (IIP) publication which is scheduled to be presented to the Statistical Commission in 2009; (ii) discuss technical cooperation on industrial statistics, i.e. coordination, regional approach, volunteers for specific areas; and (iii) review a prototype of the UNSD knowledge platform on economic statistics. Contact: Marcel Van Kints, +1 212 963 2316; e-mail: vankints@un.org National Water Accounting Workshop
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), with the support of the Government of the Dominican Republic, ECLAC and the National Water Commission of Mexico, will conduct a workshop on water accounting in Santo Domingo, 14-18 July 2008. The workshop will bring together experts from the Department of Environment, Central Bank, National Statistics Office and other stakeholders in order to prepare water accounts for the Dominican Republic. The workshop will focus on the implementation on the standard tables from the System for Environmental-Economic accounting for Water (SEEAW), the relevant international statistical standard. Particular attention will be paid to the physical supply and use tables, hybrid account and asset account of the SEEAW. Contact Michael Vardon, +1 917 367 5391, e-mail: vardon@un.org Conference on Data Quality for International Organizations The Conference on Data Quality for International Organizations will be held immediately prior to the Q2008 - European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Rome, 9-11 July 2008) under the auspices of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA). The purpose of the conference is to provide statistical experts from international or supra-national organisations with a forum to discuss specific data quality issues related to their work and exchange experiences regarding the various quality mechanisms developed for improving the collection and dissemination of international data. It is proposed that the discussions at this year's meeting will build on the extensive work in the field of data quality assessment that has recently been undertaken by CCSA under the leadership of Eurostat, and which has led to the preparation of guidelines for the Implementation of Quality Assurance Frameworks for International Organizations Compiling Statistics (refer also to SA/2007/14/Add.4). This year's conference offers therefore a unique opportunity to discuss how these guidelines, or specific elements thereof, can be applied in international agencies. For more information, please refer to the website: Contact: Mary Jane Holupka, +1 212 963 4578; e-mail: holupka@un.org Third Meeting of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) The UNCEEA is a strategic body providing coordination, setting priorities, bringing forward a research agenda, taking decisions on standards and developing strategic visions in environmental-economic accounting. The Committee meets on an annual basis. The Third meeting will discuss new terms of reference for the Committee to encompass not only environmental-economic accounting but also environment statistics. It will also discuss the project management framework for the revision of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, including the timeline and governance of the project and monitor the progress of work of the groups working within its mandate. Contact: Alessandra Alfieri, +1 212 963 4590; email:alfieri@un.org Special Session on Climate Change The meeting is being organized as a follow-up to the Conference on Climate Change and Official Statistics (Oslo, 14-16 June 2008) which recognized the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) as a useful framework for climate change and requested the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting to oversee the statistical work on climate change. The objective of the Special Session is to brainstorm on existing initiatives and various stakeholders with the objective to developing a programme of work. Contact: Alessandra Alfieri, +1 212 963 4590; email: alfieri@un.org DESA-Seminar on "Global Statistical System and UN Development Agenda: Building Structures for Development" This Seminar will present UNSD's vision for advancing the Global Statistical System and establishing statistical and spatial infrastructures as supporting components. The System currently operates well within a normative framework with established professional ethics and methodological guidelines, and has embarked on projects of global scale. However, it is conservative in nature, and has yet to focus its attention (and its resources) on emerging development issues. The seminar hopes to explore ways in which the Global Statistical System could respond more effectively to the measurement requirements of urgent development issues. For more information, please refer to the pdf: Contact: Stefan Schweinfest, Tel. +1 212 963 4849, email: schweinfest@un.org Data Managers’ Meeting As part of the effort by the UN Statistics Division to facilitate the easy access to the data resources of the UN System in February 2008, UNdata (data.un.org), a web-based data access system, was launched to the public. In this context, UNSD is organizing a Data Managers meeting. The overall objective is to bring the database experts of the UN partner agencies together, especially those who have already contributed data to the system and those who intend to do so in the near future. The specific objectives are (i) for UNSD to inform the partners on the latest developments of the system, (ii) for the partner agencies to discuss the current content and planned future updates of UNdata and (iii) to reach agreements on in the form of individual “Memoranda of Understanding” on the maintenance of the system, in particular the frequency of data and metadata updates. The meeting will be conducted in English. Contact: Stefan Schweinfest, Tel. +1 212 963 4849, email: schweinfest@un.org Workshop for Francophone African Countries on the Implementation of International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics This workshop is being organized by the UN Statistics Division in collaboration with the Economic and Statistical Observatory of Sub-Saharan Africa (AFRISTAT). The main purposes of the workshop are: (a) to present and discuss the IRDTS 2008; (b) to review the state of distributive trade statistics compilation in African countries; and (c) to identify the challenges and good practices in their collection, compilation and dissemination. The workshop will contribute to the preparation of future manuals that will provide practical guidance to compilers of distributive trade statistics. The workshop will be conducted in French. Contact: Thierno Balde, Tel. +1 212 963 5510, email: baldet@un.org Regional Workshop on Census data processing: contemporary technologies for data capture, methodology and practice of data editing The purpose of the Workshop is to present international standards for processing population and housing censuses and to highlight the significant additional capabilities of contemporary technologies and their use for census data capture and data editing. More specifically, the Workshop will: (1) Present revised international standards for conducting population and housing censuses, focusing on recommended core topics as identified in the United Nations Principles and Recommendations Revision 2; (2) Discuss ways of improving the management and planning of the census, including outsourcing issues; (3) Present and discuss contemporary technologies in census data capture, including the use of Optical Mark Recognition (OMR), Optical Character Recognition/Intelligent Character Recognition (OCR/ICR), (4) Discuss the process stages for data capture, (5) Present an overview of major commercial suppliers for data capture; and (6) Present the principles and practices for census data coding and data editing. The workshop will also offer the possibility to the participants to present the experience of their countries in census data processing. For more information, please refer to the website: Contact: Jean-Michel Durr, Tel. +1 917 367 9165, e-mail: durr@un.org Workshop for Anglophone African Countries on the Implementation of International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics This workshop is being organized by the UN Statistics Division in collaboration with the African Centre for Statistics of the UN Economic Commission for Africa The main purposes of the workshop are: (a) to present and discuss the IRDTS 2008; (b) to review the state of distributive trade statistics compilation in African countries; and (c) to identify the challenges and good practices in their collection, compilation and dissemination. The workshop will contribute to the preparation of future manuals that will provide practical guidance to compilers of distributive trade statistics. The workshop will be conducted in English. Contact: Youlia Antonova, Tel. +1 212 367 3376, email: antonova@un.org Workshop on Environment Statistics The United Nations Statistics Division, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme and the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), is organizing a Workshop on Environment Statistics at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria for about forty-one participants from national statistical offices and environmental ministries/agencies from the ECOWAS member states. The main objectives of the Workshop are to: (a) adopt a list of environmental statistics and indicators for the ECOWAS region for national and regional reporting based on the African regional list of environmental statistics and indicators agreed upon at the UNSD/UNEP/ECA Workshop on Environment Statistics in July 2007; (b) review draft methodologies for the set of indicators agreed upon at the UNSD/UNEP/ECA Workshop on Environment Statistics in July 2007; (c) review the draft ECOWAS regional programme on environment statistics; (d) train participants from national statistical offices and environmental ministries/agencies on basic concepts, methods and best practices in environment statistics; (e) provide a forum for exchange of information on the status of national environment statistics; and (f) enhance the capacity of statisticians in developing countries to develop and improve their capabilities in environment statistics. The Workshop will cover statistics on freshwater resources and their use, marine resources, land use and land degradation, forests, biodiversity, air emissions and air quality; waste; natural disasters and environmental health, based on the UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics and other training/methodological material. Contact: Reena Shah, Tel. +1 212 963 4586, email: shahr@un.org UNSD-ESCWA Regional Workshop on Census data processing in the ESCWA region: contemporary technologies for data capture, methodology and practice of data editing The purpose of the Workshop is to present international standards for processing population and housing censuses and to highlight the significant additional capabilities of contemporary technologies and their use for census data capture and data editing. More specifically, the Workshop will: (1) Present revised international standards for conducting population and housing censuses, focusing on recommended core topics as identified in the United Nations Principles and Recommendations Revision 2; (2) Discuss ways of improving the management and planning of the census, including outsourcing issues; (3) Present and discuss contemporary technologies in census data capture, including the use of Optical Mark Recognition (OMR), Optical Character Recognition/Intelligent Character Recognition (OCR/ICR), Internet data collection, use of handheld devices for data collection, (4) Discuss the process stages for data capture, (5) Present an overview of major commercial suppliers for data capture; and (6) Present the principles and practices for census data coding and data editing. The workshop will also offer the opportunity to the participants to present the experience of their countries in census data processing. For more information, please refer to the website: Contact: Jean Michel Durr, Tel. +1 917 367 9165, e-mail: durr@un.org Joint UNSD- Eurostat Conference on "International Outreach and Coordination in National Accounts for Sustainable Growth and Development" The United Nations Statistics Division and Eurostat will jointly organize a high level Conference on "International Outreach and Coordination in National Accounts for Sustainable Growth and Development, on6 - 8 May 2008 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. This Conference will be an opportunity to bring together producers and users of statistics as well as technical and financial partners from all regions of the world. The main objective is to facilitate the outreach of the System of National Accounts (SNA) within a context that is mindful of the development cooperation issues necessary to support poverty reduction and sustainable growth and development strategies.
It is expected that, at its conclusion, the conference will adopt an action plan for implementation in addition to operational recommendations for the attention of the developing countries and their technical and financial partners. For more information, please refer to the website: Contact: Karen Cassamajor, Tel. +1 212 963 4561, email: cassamajor@un.org Workshop on Coordination of reporting mechanisms and Data Discrepancies in the MDG monitoring This workshop will bring together national statistical offices and international agencies and provide an opportunity to explore ways to reconcile national and international data. It will also provide national statistical offices with more training in the production of data for MDGs monitoring at the national and sub-national levels. Contact: Maria Martinho, Tel. +1 212 963 4947, email: martinho@un.org
Workshop on Household Surveys and Measurement of Labour Force with Focus on Informal Economy The Workshop is being organized by the United Nations Statistics Division, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), as part of the project "Strengthening statistical capacity-building in support of progress towards the Internationally Agreed Development Goals in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region". The Workshop will train representatives from the National Statistical Offices and Ministries of Labour of the SADC region countries on the measurement of women's and men's participation in the labour force through household surveys, with a particular focus on statistics on employment in the informal sector and informal employment. For more information, please refer to the website: Contact: Yacob Zewoldi, Tel. +1 212 963 0445, email: zewoldi@un.org The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), the World Bank and Statistics Norway, will convene an international conference on climate change and official statistics. For more information, please refer to the website: Contact: Eszter Horvath, Tel. +1 212 963 4581, email: horvath@un.org United Nations Expert Group Meeting to Review the Draft Handbook on Geographic Databases and Census Mapping The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is organizing an expert group meeting to review the draft Handbook on Geographic Databases and Census Mapping. The Handbook provides detailed technical and operational guidance on the recent developments in technology, methods and standardization related to geographic information and census mapping, which have been reflected in the recently adopted Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 2, and draws on the experiences of countries in using geospatial technologies with census mapping operations. For more information, please refer to the website: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/meetings/egm/CensusMapping_Handbook_EGM08/default.htm Contact: Amor Laaribi, Tel. +1 212 963 3042, email: laaribi@un.org 39th Session of the UN Statistical Commission The thirty-ninth session of the Statistical Commission is scheduled to be held at United Nations Headquarters, New York from 26 to 29 February 2008. For more information, please refer to the website: Contact: Li Wang, Tel. +1 212 963 9547, email: wangl@un.org Workshop on the 2010 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses: International standards, contemporary technologies and regional cooperation The purpose of the Workshop is to present international standards for conducting population and housing censuses. It will provide an opportunity for exploring ways of strengthening regional cooperation in establishing joint ventures during various stages of population and housing censuses in the Pacific region. The workshop will also cover the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for census and survey data capture, and Geographical Information System (GIS) and other geospatial technologies in census mapping activities. More specifically, the Workshop will: (1)Present revised international standards for conducting population and housing censuses, focusing on recommended core topics as identified in the United Nations Principles and Recommendations Revision 2; (2) Discuss ways of improving the capacity of national statistical offices to implement the revised Principles and Recommendations by reviewing a proposed Pacific Islands model census questionnaire and possibilities for its coordinated implementation ; (3) Present and discuss new approaches in census geography, including the use of Geographical Information Systems and Global Positioning Systems in census mapping, data collection and dissemination, and disaster management and explore the use of optical character recognition solutions (OCR) for census and survey data capture in the SPC region.G Contact: Jean-Michel Durr, Tel. +1 917 367 9165, e-mail: durr@un.org |
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