United Nations Economic Commission for EuropeStatistical DivisionUnited Nations Economic Commission for EuropeStatistical Division

Report on the Activities of the StatCapCA Project

- New activities are highlighted in red colour -

Fourth SPECA PWG Meeting

Istanbul 23 March 2009Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE

ECE-ESCAP-SPECA/PWG-Statistics/2009/2ECE/CES/GE57/2009/2

23 March 2009 Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 2

Main fields of activities

Population and Census activities Measuring the Health Status of the

population Non-Observed Economy

Additionally to this• Study visits on best management practices

in Official statistics = CES & SPECA PWG Meetings

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Population and Census activities 3 + 1 Training Workshops

• Baku (Autumn 2006): Management of the Census process

• Dushanbe (March 2007): Census Questionnaire design

• Astana (June 2007): Census Technology• Web Sites can be found in the written report

+ Ashgabat: Census Management and Questionnaire Design (National Workshop)

Advisory Missions – Kyrgyzstan in August 2008, Tajikistan in January 2009

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Measuring the Health Status of the population Concentration on support for the development

of Disability Statistics 1 + 1 Training Workshop

• Bishkek (December 2006): Disability Statistics for SPECA Member Countries; Web site in the written report

• Bangkok (April 2008): UNESCAP Regional Workshop on promoting disability data collection through the 2010 Population and Housing Censuses

Participation in Bangkok by Tajikistan and Kazakhstan • Web sites can be found in the written report

Kazakhstan now deeply involved in this work

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Non-Observed Economy (1)

Two Training Workshops• Bishkek (April 2007)• Geneva (April 2008)

A combination of three seminars in one week:– Special Session for Transition Economies– Joint Meeting on the 2008 Revision of National

Accounts– Impact of Globalization on National Accounts

Web Sites• Web sites can be found in the written report

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Non-Observed Economy (2)

Advisory Missions• Dushanbe

(November 2007)• Baku (October

2008)

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Study visits on best management practices in Official statistics Funding of participation of Heads of Central

Asian National Statistical Agencies to• The Conference of European Statisticians

Paris 2006 Geneva 2007 Paris 2008

• The Meetings of the SPECA Project Working Group A continued way of funding of these activities

has now been negotiated with the World Bank

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A small financial “leftover” in the StatCapCA Project

Possibility to implement one or two Advisory Missions in Spring 2009

UNECE proposal:• Support to work on

Dissemination databases for Population Census results

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With Technical Cooperation to a brighter future

A more detailed material will be presented in the Evaluation Report of the StatCapCA Project

Thank you for your attention!

petteri.baer@unece.org