Issue highlight (Statistical Newsletter – Second Quarter, 2009)

·         The sixty-fifth session of the Commission, Bangkok, 23-29 April 2009

o        Senior Officials’ Segment

o        Ministerial Segment

o        Resolution 65/2 Regional technical cooperation and capacity-building in statistics development in Asia and the Pacific

·         Monitoring Food Insecurity in the Asia-Pacific Region

·         Capacity Building

o        Statistics Division Meetings/Training Workshops

o        The Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Counting Better to Ensure Workers Matter

o        Workshop on Estimating HUEM (Household Unincorporated Enterprises with At Least Some Market Production) and Informal Sector Value Added Using “1-2” Survey Data, Bangkok, 25-27 May 2009

o        Workshop on Informal Employment and Informal Sector Data Analysis, Tabulations, and Country Reports, Bangkok, 28-29 May 2009

o        Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) Training Workshops

§         Fifth Group Training Course in Application of Information and Communications Technology to Production and Dissemination of Official Statistics, Chiba, Japan, 11 May – 10 July 2009

§         Country Course on Demographic Statistics, Jakarta, 18-22 May 2009

§         Distance-learning training course on “Introduction to STATA”, Bangladesh, China, Mongolia and Thailand, 20 and 23 April, 2009.

§         ESCAP/SIAP/UNIDO Workshop on Empirical Analysis to Support the Formulation of Viable Policies for the Sustainable Economic and Industrial Development, Chiba, Japan, 6-10 April 2009

§         Country Training Course on Survey Design, Poverty Analysis and Data Dissemination, Chiba, Japan, 23–27 March 2009

o        Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) Meetings

§         SIAP and UNFPA working together on 2010 Round Population Census

§         SIAP strengthens partnership with Tokyo International University

o        Calendar of forthcoming meetings:

§         Meetings and training courses of ESCAP Statistics Division and SIAP

§         Other forthcoming statistical meetings in the ESCAP region

·         Publications and data releases, April – June 2009

·         Missions undertaken by staff

·         Staff movement

·         Visitors to ESCAP Statistics Division