Workshop on Application of New Information Technology to Population Data 
12-20 October 1999 
Bangkok

1. Opening of the meeting
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Introduction 
   1. Project, Working Party and their outputs
   2. Information Technology (IT) trends and their impact
   3. IT management challenges
   4. Results of ESCAP Survey
   5. Expectations for the year 2000 round of censuses
4. Paper based data collection and capture
   1. Manual data capture techniques and software
   2. Optical Mark Recognition/Reader (OMR)
   3. Optical Character Recognition/Intelligent Character Recognition (OCR/ICR)
   4. Workflow management and quality control
5. Non-paper based data collection and capture
   1. Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
   2. Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
   3. Data collection through the Internet
6. Databases in population data operations 
   1. Electronic dissemination
   2. On-demand tabulation
   3. Warehousing and time series
   4. Hard copy
7. Data dissemination
8. Geographic information systems (GIS)
   1. Enumeration area maps
   2. Operations monitoring
   3. GIS based dissemination
9. Other matters
10. Adoption of major recommendations