Issue highlight (Statistical Newsletter – Second Quarter, 2011)

• Announcement
  • Application for Young Professionals Programme from 11 July to 10 September 2011
• Feature: Growing interest and demand for statistics on water availability
• Intergovernmental & expert dialogue
  • 67th session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
  • Technical Advisory Group on Social Statistics
  • Steering Group for the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics
  • EGM on Opportunities and advantages of enhanced collaboration on statistical
    information management in Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 20-22 June 2011
  • Assessments of the capacity of the national statistical systems of Bangladesh,
    Bhutan and Lao People's Democratic Republic to produce economic statistics
  • Assessment of the capacity of Indonesia to produce gender statistics
  • Assessing Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems in the Asia-Pacific region,
    Bangkok, 28-31 March 2011
  • “Vital Registration Assessment: Final Stakeholder Meeting”, Maldives, 24 April
    2011
• Training
  • SIAP awarded for its contribution to JAXA
  • Regional Training Course on the System of National Accounts 2008, Daejeon,
    Republic of Korea, 13-17 June 2011
  • Training Course on Survey Methodology for the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics,
    Chiba, Japan, 30 May–3 June 2011
  • Distance-learning training course on “Introduction to STATA”, 19 April 2011
  • ESCAP taps SRTC for Capacity Building Training for Central Bureau of Statistics - Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 23 May-16 June 2011
  • ESCAP/UNFPA Sub regional Training/Workshop on Dissemination of Census data
    in support of monitoring MDG indicators for policy and decision making, Ulaanbaatar, 12-14
    April 2011
• Collaboration
  • Strengthening Health Information Systems
  • Harmonisation as a Means to Increasing Data Quality and Utility of Time-Use Data
  • International Workshop on Measuring GDP by Final Demand Approach, Shenzhen, China
  • UNFPA-NESDB symposium
• Upcoming releases
  • Regional MDG Report
  • Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific, 2011
• Calendar of forthcoming statistical meetings in Asia and the Pacific region
• New faces
• Visitors to ESCAP Statistics Division

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