Issue highlight (Statistical Newsletter – Third Quarter, 2011)

• In focus
  • The launch of Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2011
• Expert dialogue
  • The 58^th World Statistics Congress
  • Second meeting of Partners for Statistics Development in Asia-Pacific: Partners agree on priorities for future collaboration
  • Working/Inception Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Social Statistics
  • Planning for Statistical-Capacity Building Activities under the ESCAP-Myanmar Partnership for the Millennium Development Goals
  • ESCAP in-country needs assessment on the status of gender statistics in Bhutan and the capacity of the national statistical system to produce gender statistics
  • Steering Group for Agricultural Statistics
• Training
  • Workshop on concepts and methods for producing disaggregated statistics using census data
  • Pacific workshop to increase use of census results
  • Second group training course in application of information management and related ICT for official statistics
  • Group Training Course in Production and Development of Official Statistics in support of National Goals including the Achievement of MDGs (PDOS-2)
  • Enhancing Close Collaboration between Users and Producers in Dissemination and Use of Census Results with Gender Concern
• Collaboration
  • International Forum on Monitoring National Development: Issues and Challenges
  • TWG-GEEW Working Group on Gender Statistics
  • Second Regional Intensive Course of the Asia-Pacific Capacity Development on Gender and Macroeconomic Issues
  • Conference on the Development of Supply and Use Tables in Asia and the Pacific, Manila, Philippines
  • Consultation Workshop on Vital Registration
• Calendar of forthcoming statistical meetings Asia and the Pacific region
• New face
• Visitors to ESCAP Statistics Division

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