Dear readers, this issue of Statistical Newsletter was
prepared with a small preoccupation. With
issue 112, a questionnaire was attached
in order to attract your feedback and
further improve the contents of this publication.
Not much feedback was received so far.
In several meetings
of statisticians of this region, this
bulletin has been cited as a valuable
tool of information sharing for developing
countries. We add to this opinion our
belief that its Web edition, given the
growing Internet connectivity in the Asia
and the Pacific, will be even more useful
and far-reaching than the hardcopy.
We needed and we
still need to know what the readers, the
users of this information vehicle, think
about it. We also encourage countries
to write to us if they wish to highlight
some of their new developments in statistics,
whether on their web sites or published
form.
We continue to inform
you about our activities and other significant
events. The application of new technology
to population data, issues related to
measuring paid and unpaid work, and civil
registration and vital statistics are
three important themes on which the Statistics
Division of ESCAP recently organized activities.
In particular the measurement of paid
and unpaid work will constitute a pivotal
activity in future, given its linkages
with gender and labour statistics and
the need for many countries in the region
to strengthen their informal sector statistics.
The section on conferences,
training opportunities and other news
includes some information on methodology
and other resources on national accounts
and the 1993 SNA which is available on
the Web. The next issues of Statistical
Newsletter will continue to present our
research of the Web on specific priority
areas in statistics for the region.
Good reading.
The
fourth meeting of the Working Party on Application
of New Technology to Population Data, Manila,
6-9 July 1999
The fourth meeting of the
Working Party on the Application of New Technology
to Population Data was organized by the secretariat
of ESCAP in Manila from 6 to 9 July 1999; the
National Statistics Office of the Philippines
provided host facilities. The meeting, funded
under a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
project, was attended by experts from all the
nine members of the Working Party: Australia,
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, New Zealand,
Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Participants
from the Statistical Institute for Asia and
the Pacific (SIAP), the UNFPA Country Support
Team for Central and South Asia, as well as
observers from UNFPA Manila, government and
the private sector attended.
The main focus of the Manila meeting was on
mapping and related technologies. Furthermore,
the meeting finalized the preparations for a
Workshop on Application of New Technology to
Population Data to be held in Bangkok.
The Working Party reviewed the status of mapping
and related technologies on the basis of several
papers. It noted that countries were in various
stages of development of digital maps for census
purposes and development of GIS applications.
Australia, New Zealand and Japan had fully digitized
maps covering the entire country. These maps
included coordinates of the boundaries of the
smallest levels of administrative areas, which
enabled the dissemination of small area statistics.
In Australia, for example, GIS and spatial analysis
had been used to support the development of
a survey frame for a housing needs survey for
the indigenous community.
By contrast, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Macau,
Philippines, and Thailand were just beginning
to transform their paper and other maps into
digital formats in preparation for the 2000
round of population censuses. The extent of
use of map digitization of the national statistical
offices in those economies varied and this was
reflected in the resources and the type of technology
being adopted to produce the desired digital
maps.
The Working Party agreed that the statistical
offices were not the major mapping agencies
in the countries and therefore did not have
primary responsibility for producing digital
maps. However, the use of maps for statistical
purposes made it necessary for the statistical
offices to play an active role in coordinating
efforts to produce digitized maps where they
were not available.
Another important point on the agenda of the
meeting was the review of the three guidelines
prepared previously with the aim of helping
the national statistical offices of developing
countries of the region to adopt and benefit
from the latest feasible information technology
in their activities.
The three guidelines evaluated were:
Guidelines on the application
of new information technology to population
data collection and capture;
Guidelines on the application
of modern mapping and GIS technologies in
census operations;
Guidelines on the application
of new information technology to population
data dissemination.
The Working Party made both general and specific
comments on the guidelines and recommended that
they be further reviewed by the participants of
the "Workshop on Application of New Information
Technology to Population Data" held in October
1999 in Bangkok. The Workshop will be covered
in the next Newsletter. The Working Party also
made comments and recommendations on the format
and contents of pilot country projects, namely
the
Uses of GPS for preparation
of census enumeration area maps, by the Bangladesh
Bureau of Statistics;
Imaging technology, by
Statistics Indonesia;
Uses of GIS for census
operations and dissemination, by the Philippines
National Statistics Office.
The Working Party decided its future programme
of work, which includes as outputs the organization
of the October Workshop and an awareness package
on new technologies to be produced on CD-ROM.
The final report of the meeting is available
together with several of the documents on the
Statistics Division's Web site. The URL http://www.unescap.org/stat/pop-it/index.htm
provides links to the fourth as well as the
first three meetings of the Working Party.
Other information relevant to the project under
which the Working Party is constituted is available
at the same location.
Measuring
paid and unpaid work: the regional resource group
holds its first meeting and prepares for a two
year cycle of work
In April 1999 a Regional
Resource Group (RRG) was created under a project
entitled "Integrating Paid and Unpaid Work Into
National Policies", one of the components of
the Programme on Promoting Gender Equality in
the Asia-Pacific Region sponsored by the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Group
held its first meeting in Bangkok on 5-6 August
1999 to prepare its future action programme
and also to discuss the role of the paid and
unpaid work component in the larger UNDP project.
The component's objective is to develop policy
recommendations on integrating paid and unpaid
work into national policies and to raise awareness
of policy makers on the implications for development
planning and programming.
The activities addressing development policies
will be implemented hand in hand with those
on statistical policy. The RRG agreed that the
project should not wait for the completion of
time use surveys in the countries before starting
work on policy advocacy.
The component will have policy dimensions at
the national, regional, and international levels.
Work on national policy will be undertaken by
the countries concerned. Regional activities
will focus on influencing regional statistical
policies and development policies through the
conduct of regional workshops on the policy
implications of paid and unpaid work and the
development of advocacy materials. The advocacy
materials could be distributed in forthcoming
regional meetings such as the High-level Meeting
on the Beijing Platform for Action, the Preparatory
Committee for Copenhagen+5, and UNCTAD X in
February 2000.
The RRG also discussed three other topics:
Preparations for
the Ahmedabad seminar on time use surveys The Group reviewed the draft plans
for a seminar to refine methodologies for
the measurement, valuation and analysis of
paid and unpaid work. The seminar will be
held in Ahmedabad, India in December 1999,
and the proceedings will be reported on in
the next issue of Statistical Newsletter.
Planning of Policy
Dialogue on Paid and Unpaid Work for the High-Level
Meeting on the Beijing Platform for Action
The RRG discussed the plans for a policy dialogue
during the High-Level Meeting on the Beijing
Platform for Action, to be held in Bangkok
from 26 to 29 October 1999. The Group agreed
to contribute materials for incorporation
into the agenda topic on economic empowerment
of women.
Proposed Outline
of the Manual on Methodologies for Measuring
and Valuing Paid and Unpaid Work, and Briefing
Kits on Integrating Paid and Unpaid Work in
National Policies
The Group agreed that a resource kit rather
than a manual on paid and unpaid work and
time use should be developed.
It decided on the inclusion of the following main
topics:
Gender issues related
to work and time use;
Conceptual framework
for measurement, analysis and use of paid
and unpaid work and time use;
Analysis of time allocation
and utilization.;
Valuation of paid and
unpaid activities;
Analysis and policy
implications of paid and unpaid work;
Analysis and policy
implications of time use;
Integrating paid and
unpaid activities and time use into national
policies promoting human development;
Case study of three
countries.
Each topic could be developed independently of
the others.
The Group agreed that the resource kit will
be web-based until it has been finalized. For
this purpose, the Statistics Division will establish
the web site on time use surveys/paid and unpaid
work. At the same time, UNDP will establish
an email address for the Group. The web site
and email address will be used to disseminate
information and to provide a forum for exchange
of ideas on paid and unpaid work and on time
use surveys. It is expected that the members
of the RRG will contribute materials for the
resource kit.
Training
workshop for trainers on civil registration and
vital statistics, Bangkok, 13-24 September 1999
A Training Workshop for Trainers in Civil
Registration and Vital Statistics Systems was
held in Bangkok from 13 to 24 September 1999.
This Workshop was jointly organized by the United
Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and ESCAP,
with financial support from the United Nations
Population Fund. It is part of the UNSD International
Programme for Accelerating the Improvement of
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems,
phase II, which is designed to provide technical
assistance to develop regional, subregional
and national capacity to train national officials
and specialists on the essentials to operate
and maintain accurate civil registration and
vital statistics systems.
Hosted by ESCAP at its premises in Bangkok,
the Workshop was attended by:
demographers and statisticians
working in universities, training and research
centres, who were selected by their institutions
and have agreed to become focal points for
civil registration and vital statistics training
activities;
high level and experienced
national officials, who represented civil
registration and national statistical offices
from selected countries that have made significant
improvements during the 1990s in the recording
of vital events and the derived vital statistics;
and
professionals from international
and non-governmental organizations.
Mr. Adrianus Mooy, Executive Secretary of ESCAP,
opened the Workshop and welcomed the participants
from various regions of the world. In his remarks,
he indicated that the Workshop was part of the
continuing joint efforts of ESCAP and UNSD toward
strengthening national statistical capabilities
in developing countries. He added that the meeting
was unique as it was inter-regional in character
and involved professionals and trainers of high
standing coming from highly reputable academic,
research, governmental and international institutions.
He expressed his gratitude to the United Nations
Statistics Division for selecting ESCAP as the
venue for the workshop and for lining up an
excellent team of resource persons. He also
thanked the Civil Registration Division of the
Royal Thai Government for agreeing to receive
the workshop participants in its central offices
for a series of demonstrations.
The Executive Secretary stressed that an effective
civil registration system and a vital statistics
system were a must for a modern society. They
served several basic functions, including the
generation of legal documents and the collection
of essential population and health-related data.
Registration records were indispensable primary
documents for rights to citizenship, school
attendance, and various entitlements and benefits,
including social security. Mr. Mooy regretted
that, even though the importance of the vital
statistics derived from civil registration was
widely recognized, progress in their development
had been very slow.
The Handbook on Training in Civil Registration
and Vital Statistics Systems, drafted for the
Workshop, was used to conduct each training
session for the specialists. It consisted of
24 modules of one hour lecture each plus discussions,
and each participant received a copy of the
draft Handbook. The Workshop participants reviewed
each module and proposed needed revisions.
The 24 modules of the Handbook are:
The need for a civil
registration system;
Vital events to be
registered and characteristics of the civil
registration method;
National level designation
of responsibilities and organizational structures;
Model civil registration
law;
Integration and coordination
in the civil registration system;
Designation of responsibilities
for the local registrar;
Local registration
units and designation of informants;
The civil registration
process, Part 1: place, time, cost , late
registration;
The civil registration
process, Part 2: preparation and storage of
the Vital Registration Record;
The civil registration
process, Part 3: policies on release of individual
information, record content, numbering;
The civil registration
process, Part 4: additions, amendments to
records, issuing certified copies, linkages;
The civil registration
process, Part 5: recording, reporting and
collecting civil registration data for statistical
purposes;
Computerization in
civil registration;
Definitions, sources
and priority of data in the vital statistics
system;
Designation of responsibilities,
organizational structures and coordination
in the vital statistics system;
Topics to be investigated
in a vital statistics system;
Compiling vital statistics,
Part 1: advanced planning and national centralized
compilation;
Compiling vital statistics,
Part 2: tabulation principles;
Presentation of results
and data dissemination for the vital statistics
system;
Completeness of statistical
reporting and quality of data recorded;
Completeness of civil
registration and choosing an assessment method;
Training and public
education;
Monitoring and evaluation
studies and using information technology;
Information Technology
for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
Systems.
In addition to commenting on and revising all
the modules of the draft Handbook, participants
made recommendations in general on vital statistics.
Underlying the general recommendations was the
conviction that civil registration and vital
statistics are fundamental systems for every
country and area of the world and in great need
of government attention and international technical
cooperation. Therefore the Workshop suggested
that:
The vital statistics system
be clearly defined and established in the
context of the overall national statistical
system in order to secure its proper status
and budget. In turn, the national statistical
system should be strengthened;
International advocacy
and technical cooperation should be strengthened
to improve civil registration and vital statistics
systems, especially by the United Nations
Statistics Division, the Statistics Divisions
of the regional commissions, and the United
Nations specialized agencies;
A global alliance of
collaboration and cooperation should be developed,
including the United Nations specialized agencies,
non-governmental organizations, national governments,
and civil society at large.
Reference documents and training materials
made available to participants included:
Principles and Recommendations
for a Vital Statistics System/Revision 2 (United
Nations, Provisional ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/19/Rev.2)
Report of the Expert
Group on the Principles and Recommendations
for a Vital Statistics System (United Nations,
E/CN.3/1999/10)
Handbook of Vital Statistics
Systems and Methods, vol. I, Legal, Organizational
and Technical Aspects, Studies in Methods,
Series F. No. 35 (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.91.XVII.5)
Handbook of Vital Statistics
Systems and Methods, vol. II, Review of National
Practices, Studies in Methods, Series F. No.
35 (United Nations publication, Sales No.E.84.XVII.11)
Handbook on Civil Registration
and Vital Statistics Systems: Management,
Operation and Maintenance, Studies in Methods,
Series F. No. 72 (United Nations publication,
Sales No.E.98.XVII.11)
Handbook on Civil Registration
and Vital Statistics Systems: Preparation
of a Legal Framework, Studies in Methods,
Series F. No. 71 (United Nations publication,
Sales No.E.98.XVII.7)
Handbook on Civil Registration
and Vital Statistics Systems: Developing Information,
Education and Communication, Studies in Methods,
Series F. No. 69 (United Nations publication,
Sales No.E.98.XVII.4)
Handbook on Civil Registration
and Vital Statistics Systems: Computerization,
Studies in Methods, Series F. No. 73 (United
Nations publication, Sales No.E.98.XVII.10)
Handbook on Civil Registration
and Vital Statistics Systems: Policies and
Protocols for the Release and Archiving of
Individual Records, Studies in Methods, Series
F. No.70 (United Nations publication, Sales
No.E.98.XVII.6)
Draft Training Handbook
on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
Systems (United Nations, Provisional)
Readers interested in the full report of the
Workshop will find it available here
(pdf format), or can request it by writing to
us (see last page).
Conferences
/ Training opportunities / Other news
Methodology
on National Accounts and the 1993 SNA: what's
on the Web
The previous issue of the Statistical Newsletter
published an article on how to find statistical
resources on the Web. Some links to statistical
directories were provided with a review of selected
web sites featuring on-line books on methodology,
tutorials and so forth.
With this issue we begin to provide our readers
with coverage of the most significant resources
we could locate on the Web regarding the priority
areas of our work programme, which include national
accounts, poverty statistics, gender statistics,
statistics on the informal sector and environment
statistics. This issue will focus on national
accounts.
As the Web is a whole global resource, we first
searched the Web globally with the idea of finding
the best of what is published. Following this
step, we narrowed the selection to uncover those
resources originating in our region.
The first stop on national accounts and in
particular on the 1993 System of National Accounts
(1993 SNA) should be with the Web edition of
SNA
News and Notes, issued by the United
Nations Statistics Division.
At http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/sna/sna.htm
it is possible to find links to the issues of
the newsletter in four languages (English, French,
Russian and Spanish). The newsletter is one
of the most important global references in the
field of national accounts.
Proceedings of meetings are frequently posted
on the Web. Meetings on national accounts do
not constitute an exception. Here is the link
to the meetings page of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
http://www.oecd.org/std/nahome.htm
Digging on the Web page, throughout the various
meetings on national accounts that are reported
there, it is possible to find several papers
contributing to the current discussions on the
field. At the same page some other information
on the subject is available, including the on-line
version of the publication Quarterly National
Accounts in PDF format.
If you are looking for an example on the treatment
of national accounts from the perspective of
a recently established central statistical office,
then you might go to http://www.pcbs.org/english/nat_acco/nat_met.htm,
by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
As far as data are concerned, a useful link
is to the web site of the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) which provides several statistical
time series on national accounts. At the page
http://internotes.asiandevbank.org/notes/edr0006p/
you will find links to ADB's statistics at regional
and country level, including series on national
accounts.
A valuable source for theoretical and methodological
reference is available on-line journals. A very
good way we found to access a wide variety of
journals on economics is through a Web directory,
http://rfe.wustl.edu/ScholComm/OnLineJour/index.html,
which lists several on-line journals which deal
with economics and in some cases with national
accounts. We could not review all these journals,
but they represent a large sample of the international
specialized press on economics and may prove
useful to statisticians working on economic
estimates and models or national accounts.
Do not forget to look also at the web sites
of national statistical offices of the region
if you are interested to find out what is being
done by other Asian and Pacific countries in
this field: previous issues of the Statistical
Newsletters provided the URLs of their Web sites
and an updated list is available at the Statistics
Division's web site.
Fiji
Islands Statistics Bureau launches its Web site,
publishing useful official statistics and other
statistical information on the Internet
What a good start for the web site of the
Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics! Their web
site was launched recently and adds Fiji to
the growing number of countries of our region
which started statistical dissemination programmes
on the Web.
Despite the scarcity of resources when compared
with larger countries, Fiji's example demonstrates
that even a small Pacific Island country can
set up its own statistical web site successfully.
The philosophy of building a scalable product,
simple but well structured to accommodate
future enhancements, and with a minimum set
of indicators, seems the right way to begin
building an excellent product. Such an approach
stimulates review and feedback from visitors,
and allows the site to be reshaped to meet
the needs of its users to the best possible
extent.
Providing statistical information on the
Internet is useful for the country concerned,
not only for external users. It implies the
establishment of an authoritative source of
quantitative information, well recognized
by the various government agencies of the
country, it generates further demand for statistics
and, in the long term, contributes to strengthening
the statistical system of a country.
The
International Association of Research in Income
and Wealth (IARIW) holds its 26th General Conference
in Cracow, Poland from 27 August to 2 September
2000
The International Association of Research
in Income and Wealth plans to hold its 26th
General Conference in Cracow from 27 August
to 2 September 2000. IARIW was founded in September
1947, in conjunction with a meeting of the International
Statistical Institute.
The Association has produced a quarterly
journal, The Review of Income and Wealth,
since 1966 and it holds general conferences
biennially in even years. The tentative programme
of the next conference as of 1 December 1999
will develop through the following daily sessions:
Monday 28 August (morning)
Session 1: Factor
Productivity and Technological Change;
afternoon
Session 2A: Economic
Performance and Income Distribution;
(continued in the evening)
Session 2B: Balance
Sheets;
Tuesday 29 August (morning)
Session 3: International
Standards for Income Distribution
Statistics; afternoon
Session 4A: Environmental
Accounting;
Session 4B: Household
Budget Expenditures and Budget Standards;
Wednesday 30 August
Full day break
Thursday 31 August
morning
Session 5: Measures
of Economic Well-Being;
afternoon
Session 6A: Measures
of Poverty and Social Exclusion; (continued
in the evening)
Session 6B: Measurement
of Government and Other Non-Profit
Institutions;
Friday 1 September
morning
Session 7A: Construction
and Use of Social Accounting Matrices;
Session 7B: Selected
Contributed Papers;
afternoon
Session 8: Contributed
Papers:
Group 1: Topics
in National and Historical Accounting
and Productivity Comparisons;
Group 2:
Issues in Income Distribution;
The tentative programme of the Conference
provides that a maximum of 6 papers will be
discussed in each session. Authors and discussants
are from academia, national and international
statistical offices, central banks and research
institutes. The titles of the papers to be
presented are available at the web site of
IARIW at the URL http://www.econ.nyu.edu/dept/iariw/Prog2000.htm
Membership of IARIW is both individual and
institutional. Information on membership application
and about articles published in the journal
of the Association are also available at the
web site. For further information, please
contact:
I.A.R.I.W.
(The International Association of Research
in Income and Wealth)
Department of Economics
New York University
269 Mercer Street
Room 700
New York, NY 10003
U.S.A.
Telephone: (212) 924-4386
FAX: (212) 366-5067
E-mail: iariw@econ.nyu.edu
Web site: http://www.econ.nyu.edu/dept/iariw/
Jan
Tinbergen Awards: ISI competition for young statisticians
The International Statistical Institute (ISI)
announces the Tenth Competition among young
statisticians from developing countries who
are invited to submit a paper on any topic within
the broad field of statistics, for possible
presentation at the 53rd Session of the ISI
to be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea in 2001.
A special restriction will be introduced
for this edition of the Competition: applications
will be considered from female candidates
only. Participation in the competion is open
to female nationals of developing countries
who are living in a developing country, and
who were born in 1969 or later.
Previous winners of the award are prohibited
from competing again.
Papers submitted must be unpublished, original
works which may include material from participants'
university theses. The papers submitted will
be examined by an International Jury of distinguished
statisticians who will select the three best
papers presented in the competion. Their decision
will be final.
Each author of a winning paper will receive
the Jan Tinbergen Award in the amount of 5,000
Dutch Guilders and be invited to present their
papers at the Seoul Session of the ISI, with
all expenses paid (i.e. round trip airline
ticket from the place of residence to Seoul
plus a lump sum to cover living expenses).
Manuscripts for the competition should be
submitted so as to reach the ISI not later
than January 1, 2001.
The rules governing the preparation of papers,
application forms and full details are available
on request from the ISI permanent office:
The Director
Permanent Office
International Statistical Institute
428 Prinses Beatrixlaan
PO Box 950
2270 AZ Voorburg
The Netherlands
Publications
released by the Statistics Division
Statistical Indicators
for Asia and the Pacific, Volume XXIX, No.2,
June 1999
Statistical Newsletter,
No. 114
Missions
of ESCAP Statistics Division Staff
Mr Andrew J. Flatt, Director, Statistics
Division, undertook the following missions:
Helsinki (10-18
August): Together with Ms Heidi A. Arbodela to attend the 52nd session of the International
Statistical Institute(ISI);
Madrid (14-16 September):
To represent ESCAP at the 33rd session of
the ACC Subcommittee on Statistical Activities;
Canberra (27 September
- 1 October): To participate in the United
Nations Workshop on Classifications, organized
jointly with the United Nations Statistics
Division and the Australian Bureau of Statistics;
Mr. M. Khalid Siddiqui,
Chief, Statistics Development Section, undertook
a mission to: Taejon (16-18 September):
To attend and contribute as a panelist in
the discussion on enhancement of regional
cooperation at the International Statistical
Forum.
Ms Heidi A. Arboleda, Regional Adviser
on National Accounts, undertook advisory missions
to the following countries:
Brunei Darussalam (18-31 July): To provide advisory services
on compiling expenditure on GDP deflators,
and implementation of the 1993 SNA;
Thailand (31 August and 2-8 September): To provide
advisory services on the compilation of Government
Sector accounts and act as resource person
in the seminar on General Government Accounts
of Thailand in accordance with the 1993 SNA;
Cambodia (26 September-8 October):
To serve as a training expert for the training
workshop on the compilation of the 1993 SNA
in Phnom Penh.
Mr. M. Nuri Ozsever, ESCAP Regional
Adviser on Population Data Processing and Database
Management with the UNFPA/CST in Bangkok, visited
the following countries:
Viet Nam (19 July-6
August): To assist the General Statistical
Office in reviewing the data processing system
for the long questionnaires of the 1999 census
and on the implementation of the data processing
system and coding/manual editing operations
in the Central Data Processing Center and
in selected provincial statistical offices
and regional computer centres;
Myanmar (21-29
September): To assist the Population Department,
Ministry of Immigration and Population in
further data processing and in developing
the tabulation plan for the cross border migration
and reproductive health survey.
Ms Luisa T. Engracia, ESCAP Regional
Adviser on Population Statistics with the UNFPA/CST
in Kathmandu, visited the following countries:
Tajikistan (9-13
August): To develop and install a data entry
programme for a KAP Survey using PC-Edit and
to train the staff of the Population Studies
Centre of the Academy of Science on the use
of software for data processing;
Kazakhstan (16-27
August): To formulate the Population and Development
Strategies Sub-programme (2000-2004) for Kazakhstan
in consultation with government counterparts
and the UNFPA field office.
Visitors
to the Statistics Division
Ms Carroll Long,
Deputy Regional Director, UNICEF, Bangkok
Mr Charles C. Schlegel,
Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Officer,
UNICEF, Bangkok
Mr Biswas Bhattacharya,
Asian Development Bank, Manila
Mr Serevi Baledrokadroka,
Fiji Bureau of Statistics, Suva, Fiji
Ms Mele Polutele
Finau, Statistics Department, Nuku' alofa,
Tonga
Mr Tony Johnson,
Principal Research Officer, National Accounts
Research, Australian Bureau of Statistics,
Canberra
Mr David Bain,
Project Manager, National Accounts Branch,
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra
Ms Sivalai Vararuth,
Policy and Plan Analyst, NESDB, Bangkok
Ms Jindarat Srikram,
Policy and Plan Analyst, NESDB, Bangkok
Ms Supattra Cherdchuchai,
Policy and Plan Analyst, NESDB, Bangkok
Dr. Chamnong Puangpook,
Policy and Plan Analyst, NESDB, Bangkok
Mr Katel Narapati,
Official of the Ministry of Transport, Bhutan
Mr Dorji Wangdi,
Official of the Ministry of Transport, Bhutan
Mr Karma Rinzin,
Official of the Ministry of Transport, Bhutan
Mr Tshering Gyeltshen,
Official of the Ministry of Transport, Bhutan
Mr Chopel Dorji,
Official of the Ministry of Tranport, Bhutan
Mr Muhammad Ali,
Official of the Ministry of Transport, Bhutan
Dr. S. Maudgal,
Senior Adviser (CT), Ministry of Environment & Forests, New Delhi
Dr. K. Kakkar,
Consultant, Asian Institute of Technology,
Bangkok
Ms Kay Zin Wint,
Program Associate, Environment and Natural
Resources Program, Continuing Education Center,
Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok
Mr Floro B. Tesalona,
Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok
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