Issue highlight (Statistical Newsletter - Second Quarter, 2008)

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• Re-establishment of the Committee on Statistics
• Use of information technology in population and housing censuses in the region
• Voices of the Region - Interview with Mr Kuenga Tshering, Director, National Statistics Bureau, Bhutan
• Statistics Division Meetings/Training Workshops
  • Workshop on Managing Disclosure Risk and Anonymization Tools for Microdata Dissemination, Bangkok, 28–30 May 2008
  • Workshop on Informal Employment and Informal Sector Data Collection II: Evaluation, Processing and Utilization of Data from ‘1-2’ Surveys, Bangkok, 14–16 May 2008
  • Workshop on Promoting Disability Data Collection through the 2010 Population and Housing Censuses, Bangkok, 8–10 April 2008
• SIAP Meetings/Training Workshops
  • Fourth Regional Course on Poverty Measurements, Jakarta, 6-16 May 2008
  • Country Course on International Migration, Dushanbe, 21–25 April 2008
  • Sub-regional Course on Labour Force and Manpower Projections, Hong Kong, China, 7–11 April 2008
  • Introduction to STATA software, distance-learning training course, Cambodia and India, 1–9 April 2008
  • Third Group Training Course in Modules on Fundamental Official Statistics, Chiba, Japan, 29 September 2007-14 March 2008
• Missions undertaken by Staff
• Staff movement (2^nd Quarter 2008)
• Publication and data release (2^nd Quarter 2008)
  • CD ROM Version of the Training Manual on Disability Statistics
• Visitors to ESCAP Statistics Division (2^nd Quarter 2008)
• Meetings and training courses of Statistics Division and SIAP, 2008
• Other forthcoming statistical meetings in the ESCAP region, 2008

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