Issue highlight (Statistical Newsletter - Third Quarter, 2012)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Regional Programme on Economic Statistics (RPES)

Training

·          Introduction to the System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) - An e-Learning Course: ESCAP-SIAP, August-September 2012

·          Four-month Course in Production and Development of Official Statistics in support for National Development including the Achievement of MDGs, Chiba, Japan, started 21 August 2012

·          Regional Workshop on Production and Use of Vital Statistics, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 3–7 September 2012

·          Regional Training Course (Advanced) on System of National Accounts 2008, Incheon, Republic of Korea, 11-15 September 2012

·          Country Training Workshop on Introduction to STATA Software for Data Analysis, Male’, Maldives, 12–20 September 2012

Collaboration

·          Mission to Myanmar, 2–6 July 2012

·          Second Meeting of the Working Group on the Regional Coordination of Statistical Training, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 16–18 July 2012

·          Second meeting of the Steering Group for Agricultural Statistics (SGAS), Bangkok, 18-20 July 2012

·          Stakeholder meeting: Comprehensive assessment of the civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems of Indonesia, Jakarta, 13 August 2012

·          Regional Training Course (Advanced) on the 2008 System of National Accounts, 11–15 September 2012 and International Seminar on the Implementation of the 2008 SNA in Asia and the Pacific Region and its Challenges, 18–19 September 2012, Seoul, Republic of Korea

·          Training Workshop on Measuring and analyzing the generational economy with National Transfer Accounts (NTA), Bangkok, 17–20 September 2012