The Third Meeting of the
Working Party on the Application of New Technology
to Population Data
Bali, 7-9 January 1999
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Working Party on the Application of New Technology to Population Data
Third Meeting
7-9 January 1999
Bali
Tentative
Time Schedule
Thursday, 7 January
0830-0930
Registration
0930-1030
Item 1 Opening of the meeting Item 2 Election of officers Item 3 Adoption of the agenda
1030-1045
Coffee break
1045-1200
Item 4 Progress on the guidelines and other area of work (old item 8*)
Progress on the guidelines (Reports by coordinators)
A suggested
outline of the guidelines for population
data dissemimation (ESCAP secretariat)
A suggested
outline of the guidelines for population
data, data entry, capture, processing and
archiving (Indonesia)
1200-1230
Administrative matters [ESCAP secretariat]
1230-1400
Lunch break
1400-1500
Item 4 Continued
Progress on the pilot applications (Reports by
pilot countries)
Use of GPS for
preparation of census enumeration area maps
- Bangladesh
Results of the ESCAP survey on application of
information technology to population data
(Paper by ESCAP secretariat)
1500-1530
Coffee break
1530-1700
Item 5 Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) and Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) technologies(old items
1-2*)
Integrated approach
to data capture using OMR and ICR technology
(Paper by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics)
The study of OMR and
OCR technology for Indonesian 2000 population
census (Paper by Statistics Indonesia)
Prototyping a distributed
data-capture system using a scanner (Paper
by Mr Toshio Shigematsu)
Friday,
8 January
0900-1030
Item 5 Continued
Numeric recognition
in the 1996 census of population and dwellings
- A review (Paper by Andrea Piesse,
Carolina Kol and Craig Lange, Statistics New
Zealand)
Experience in using
OMR/OCR for the population census of
Japan (Paper by the Statistics Bureau
of Japan)
A short note on OCR
and OMR in the ABS (Australian Bureau
of Statistics)
1030-1045
Coffee break
1045-1200
Item 6 Use of imaging technologies in census and survey processing(old
item 3*)
The opportunities
for improving work flows by using imaging
technology in survey processing (Paper
by David Archer and Sarah Minson, Statistics
New Zealand)
Data capture
technology for Thailand 2000 population and
housing census (Paper by National Statistical
Office, Thailand)
Other paper(s)
1200-1400
Lunch break
1400-1530
Item 7 Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
(CATI) and Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing
(CAPI)(old item 4-5*)
The Use of computer
assisted telephone interviewing (CATI)
in household surveys and population census
(Paper by Singapore Department of Statistics).
CAPI in Australia
(Paper by Australian Bureau Statistics)
1530-1545
Coffee break
1545-1700
Item 8 Other developments in input processing(old
item 6*)
Use of handheld computers
in Philippines data collection (Paper
by Tomas P. Africa and Josie B. Perez, Philippine
National Statistics Office)
Survey processing template
(SProceT) [Paper by David Archer and Ray
Freeman, Statistics New Zealand]
Inputs processing and
capture template (INSPECT) (Australian
Bureau of Statistics)
Saturday,
9 January
0900-1000
Item 9 Future programme
of work
Project programme of
work
(Paper by the ESCAP secretariat)
Item 10 Other matters.
1000-1030
Coffee break
1030-1230
Item 11 Adoption of major recommendations
*
Old items refer to the original agenda as it appeared
in the report of the second meeting and was enclosed
with our invitation for the meeting.
