This page provides access to selected capacity-building activities in the past.

• Microdata management
• Poverty statistics
• Statistical management and organization
• Gender statistics
• International Comparison Programme (ICP)
• Environment Statistics
• Application of New Technology in Population Data
• Public sector computerization
• Information Communication Technology (ICT) statistics

Users looking for more exhaustive information relating to one particular topic are encouraged to use the site search functionality at the top left corner of the page and review the list of meetings, where reports and documents are available from as early as 1994.

The Statistics Division implemented in 2007-2008 a World Bank/PARIS21-funded project on "improving access to survey and census microdata", which is part of the global Accelerated Data Programme (ADP). It advocates and provides technical assistance in the documentation, preservation and safe dissemination of microdata.

• Workshop on Census and Survey Microdata Dissemination: Benefits and challenges, Bangkok, 18 - 20 June 2008
• Workshop on Managing Disclosure Risk and Anonymization Tools for Microdata Dissemination, Bangkok, 28 - 30 May 2008
• Training on documentation and archiving for census and survey microdata, Bangkok, 12-16 November 2007

The subject of poverty measurement has been a major area of work for the Statistics Division over the years. The list below represents only a selection of recent document links relating to poverty statistics:

• Fourth session of the Committee on Poverty Reduction (Bankgkok, 12-14 December 2007).
• Committee on Poverty Reduction, 3rd Session (Bangkok, 29 November - 1 December 2006).
• Committee on Poverty Reduction, 2nd Session (Bangkok, 23-25 November 2005).
• Subcommittee on Statistics, 1st Session (Bangkok, 18-20 February 2004).
• Committee on Poverty Reduction, 1st Session (Bangkok, 8-10 October 2003).
• Committee on Statistics, 13th Session (Bangkok, 27-29 November 2002).
• WBI/ESCAP/ADB/NSO Thailand Regional Seminar for Asian Managers on Monitoring and Evaluation of Poverty Reduction Programmes (Bangkok, 9-11 October 2002).
• Seminar on Poverty Statistics (Bangkok, 21-23 June 1999).

The Statistics Division is also collaborating actively with the UNESCAP Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division (MPDD) on statistical issues.

SIAP and the Statistics Division of UNESCAP have been conducting a series of management seminars designed to strengthen statistical capability in the area of leadership and management in support of economic and social development. The seminars bring the heads of national statistical offices in the ESCAP region to a forum to discuss recent statistical challenges arising from national and global goals as they carry out their mandates in an environment of economic, social, political, and technological change.

Links to the most recent SIAP/UNESCAP Management Seminar for the Heads of National Statistical Offices in Asia and the Pacific:

• Sixth Management Seminar for the Heads of the National Statistical Offices in Asia and the Pacific (Hong Kong, China, 28-30 May 2007).
• Fifth SIAP/UNESCAP Management Seminar (Daejon, Republic of Korea, 18-20 September 2005).
• Fourth SIAP/UNESCAP Management Seminar (Putrajaya, 27-29 September 2005).
• Third SIAP/UNESCAP Management Seminar (Bangkok, 31 January - 2 February 2005).
• Second SIAP/UNESCAP Management Seminar (Luang Prabang, 14-16 January 2004).
• SIAP/UNESCAP Management Seminar (Bangkok, 12-14 February 2003).

ESCAP has been building capacity in gender statistics since 1990s in partnership with various agencies, including UNIFEM, UNDP, and ADB. Nowadays gender is mainstreamed in all statistical capacity building activities.

Links to the most recent meetings dedicated to gender statistics:

• ADB/UNESCAP Workshops on Enhancing Social and Gender Statistics.
  • Concluding workshop (Bangkok, 24-27 June 2003)
  • Inception Workshop (Bangkok, 28-31 May 2002)
• UNIFEM/ESCAP Training Workshop on an Integrated Approach to Gender Statistics (Bangkok, 8-10 January 2003).

As the 2004 preparations for the forthcoming round of the International Comparison Programme got underway, the 13th session of the Committee on Statistics underlined the capacity building potential of the programme. In that context, the Statistics Division is actively involved in the run-up to the data collection round (with base year 2004) in collaboration with the ICP Regional Coordinating Unit at the Asian Development Bank. It participated in the following two meetings:

• ADB/UNESCAP Inception workshop on ICP (AIT, Thailand, 28 July 1 August 2003). Report 
  • National Accounts Workshop (AIT, Thailand, 28 July 1 August 2003). Report
  • Workshop for Price Statisticians (AIT, Thailand, 28 July 1 August 2003). Report
• ICP Regional Advisory Board (RAB) Meeting (AIT, Thailand, 19-20 June 2003). Report

The project entitled "Development of Environment Statistics in the ESCAP region" had as its broad aim to improve national capabilities of developing countries in the region for identifying, collecting, processing, analysing and utilizing the data needed for formulating policies and programmes for environment and sustainable development, as well as for monitoring and evaluating the progress made.

The basic objectives of the project were to adopt a set of training materials on environment statistics and to provide the concerned officials with the available basic standard international methodological issues of environment statistics through subregional training workshops for East and South-East Asia, South Asia, the Pacific islands and Central Asia during the years 2000-2001.

These pages are based on the outputs of a multi-year project (1997-2001) executed by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). The project, Application of New Technology in Population Data Collection, Processing, Dissemination and Presentation (RAS/96/P12), was generously funded by the UNFPA. A number of census and statistical organizations in the region provided extensive substantive support and expert resources to the project. The main thrust of the project was to promote the adoption and effective utilization of new technology in population data collection, processing, dissemination and presentation in the countries of the ESCAP region.

This section collected methodological resources in the field of ICT statistics and the more general field of measurement of the information society.

Public sector computerization was a small-scale activity under the ESCAP Committee on Statistics promoting, the use of modern information technology in member and associate member governments.